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Electric car...The polyphone...
Electric car...The polyphone...
Item # 671248
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August 12, 1899
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Aug. 12, 1899 The ftpg. is taken up with 2 photos of the sailing yacht "Columbia" with an article & another page of photos inside.
Inside photo of: "The Riker Electric Brougham" car, with text. Also a devise titled: "The Boxing Kangaroo". "The Polyphone--Novel Attachment for Phonographs" gives the machine two horns.
The bkpg. has the first-ever automobile advertisement, first run in this magazine the year prior.
Sixteen pages, older repairs at the spine & bottom margin of ftpg. and to an inside leaf as well.
Category: Post-Civil War