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  • Largest hotel, the Lindell House...
    Item #634327
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, December 22, 1860  The front cover has "Huntington's Improved Snow Power" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The Largest Hotel in the World" which was the Lindell House in St. Louis, Missouri. This was destroyed by fire in 1867 as reported in the Harper's Weekly issue... Read full description  
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  • Early inventions...
    Item #634367
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, November 24, 1860  The front cover has "Christman's Improved Brick Elevator" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Lyman's Improved Protracting Trigonometer"; "Cook's Improved Veneer Cutter"; "Sutton's Improved Sleigh Coupling"; "Improved Skate and Ankle... Read full description  
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  • New York State Capital in 1870...
    Item #223294
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, October 15, 1870.

    * New York State Captial

    This 16 page issue is in nice condition and contains illustrations of the latest inventions of the day including the following inventions/prints: New York State Capital Building - Stump Extractor - Spring Bed - Surface Planer & More. These illustrations... Read full description  
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  • Admiral Dewey...
    Item #634401
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, August 19, 1899  The front cover has "Admiral Dewey at Trieste, Austria" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Experimental Tea Growing in the United States"; "Edward Orton" and more articles, illustrations and advertisements.
    Complete in sixteen pages and in very nice condition. Never... Read full description  
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  • Yachting...
    Item #634500
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, September 21, 1895  The front cover has "Fine Hammered Iron Work - How to Forge a Rose" which has many small illustrations and an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The Manufacture of Horn Combs"; "A Portable Electric Propeller for Boats"; "The Evolution of the International Racing Yacht";... Read full description  
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  • Very unique wheeling skates...
    Item #634501
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 19, 1870  The front cover has "Thomas L. Luder's Pedespeed" and "Clark's Multiplying-Pressure Fan Blower" with accompanying articles. Inside the issue is: "Products of the Pine Forest"; "Russell's Support For Mill Spindles"; and more articles, illustrations and... Read full description  
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  • Death of Samuel F. B. Morse...
    Item #634534
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, April 13, 1872  The front cover has "Goodwin's Method of Propelling Canal Boats" with an accompanying article.
    Inside the issue is a text report "Death of Samuel F. B. Morse". "After a few days' illness which, with his great age, led to anticipation of a fatal result, Professor Morse died... Read full description  
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  • Early inventions...
    Item #634567
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 28, 1896  The front cover has "The New Electric Railway at Niagara - the Great Gorge Rapids as Seen from the Cars" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Eight Inch Precision Lathe"; "Manufacture of Kid Gloves"; "A Great Coal Dock on Lake Superior"; "'After the... Read full description  
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  • Early inventions...
    Item #634570
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, May 14, 1870  The front cover has "Ames' Portable Engine for Agricultural Use" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Improvements in Welding Metal Plates"; "Obituary - Zerah Colburn, Engineer, and Leading Writer of Engineering Papers"; "Geer's Improved Cherry Stoner";... Read full description  
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  • Pneumatic Telegraph System...
    Item #221332
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, February 14, 1885.

    * Western Union
    * Pneumatic Telegraph System
     
    This 16 page issue is in nice condition and contains illustrations of the latest inventions of the day including the following inventions: Pneumatic System of the Western Union Telegraph Company - Tricycle - arial war vessel - Rail... Read full description  
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  • Military field hospital in 1886....
    Item #216171
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 26, 1886  This 16 page issue is in nice condition and contains illustrations of the latest inventions of the day including the following inventions: PORTABLE BARRACK AND FIELD HOSPITAL - HAND TRUCK - TOOL GRINDER - PUNCHING PRESS - WOOD WOOL MACHINE  & much more.
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  • Early electric street car...
    Item #633696
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Nov. 12, 1887  Taking most of the ftpg. are four illus. of: "The Weiss Electric Street Car & The Weiss System As Applied In Jersey City, N.J." The largest illus. shows a street car ascending a hill in Jersey City. Included is a related article.
    Many other articles & prints of the latest inventions &... Read full description  
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  • A self-righting lifeboat...
    Item #633464
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 25, 1887  Among the articles is: "An Unsinkable, Self-Righting Lifeboat" which has a nice illustration (see). Other prints include: "Rohling's Cotton Picker" "Weaver's Fly Net for Horses" "Sattes' Saw Filing Machine and much more.
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  • Quebec Bridge...
    Item #635617
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, September 29, 1917  The color-cover front has a caption "Camouflage Robes Worn by the Crew of a French Anti-Aircraft Cannon" with an accompanying article inside. Inside the issue is: "Building the Quebec Bridge"; "The Submarine Problem -- XVI"; and more articles, illustrations and advertisements.
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  • Naval review in New York City...Ice harvesting...
    Item #635618
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, October 12, 1912  The color-cover is an illustration of a foundry. Inside the issue is: "The Imposing Naval Review at New York"; "How One County Built a Good Road"; "Harvesting Ice by Electric Power"; "Labor-saving Duplicating Machines for the Office";... Read full description  
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  • The Panama Canal builder, Col. George Washington Goethals...   Aeroplane race in Europe...
    Item #635749
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 10, 1911  The front cover of the issue is entitled "Col. George Washington Goethals, Canal Builder" with further information inside. Within the issue is "The Paris-Rome-Turin Aeroplane Race"; "Waterspouts - Facts and fictions Concerning... Read full description  
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  • Elastic spoke wheels...
    Item #598707
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, April 1, 1911 
    This issue contains illustrations, accompanied by text, of the latest inventions of the day including: "Some Early Elastic Spoke Wheels", "Sinking a Battleship at Six Miles", "Record-Breaking Aeroplane Flights in France and America", and "Remarkable Cretan Relics".... Read full description  
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  • Monorail train...
    Item #635857
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 27, 1915 The cover is entitled "A Fast Monorail Train Crossing a Valley" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Rescue Company No. 1 of the New York Fire Department"; "The Principles of Radio-Telephony"; "Building a Lighthouse on Shifting Sand"; "The Superheated Steam... Read full description  
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  • WWI warfare...
    Item #635861
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, December 4, 1915 The color-cover is an illustration of soldiers using a searchlight to find zepplins. Inside the issue is: "The Intermittent Waterfall"; "Recent German Naval Construction"; The Future of Radio Telephony"; "The Passing of the Steam Locomotive"; "The Manufacture of English 12-Inch... Read full description  
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  • The Italian Navy...
    Item #635862
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 12, 1915 The front cover is an illustration entitled "Using the Searchlight to Repel a Night Attack". Inside the issue is: "The Italian Navy"; "The Use of Poisonous Gases in Warfare"; and more articles, illustrations and advertisements.
    Complete in sixteen pages and in good condition. Never bound.
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  • War Issue No. 5...
    Item #635864
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, February 6, 1915 The front color-cover is an illustration entitled "Ware Issue No. 5 - Our National Defences" and shows troops in the snow. Inside the issue is: "The United States Dreadnought 'Arkansas'"; I - The United Stated an Undefended Treasure Land"; "The Navy - Our First Line of... Read full description  
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  • The somersaulting automobile, carnival attraction...
    Item #636024
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Feb. 9, 1907  The front page has four photos of: "The Somersaulting Automobile", a carnival attraction where the vehicle actually circles in the air. Other items in the issue are: "The Accident to the Stanley Steam Racing Car at Ormond Beach" "The Somersaulting... Read full description  
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  • Optical lantern for film and theatrical productions...
    Item #636026
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Jan. 20, 1894  Ftpg. has three illus: "New Optical Lantern And Electric Lamp" a device used in photo-lithography and copying, micro photography, for theatrical effects & any application where artificial light was desired. This articles carries to an inside page where is a print of... Read full description  
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  • California raisin culture...
    Item #636028
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, January 5, 1901  The ftpg. has six photos of: "The Raisin Industry Of California" showing fields, workers picking & drying raisins, the packing process, etc. The report: "California Raisin Culture" talks about the industry at Fresno.
    Also in the issue are: "A Pyrotechnic Fire-Alarm"... Read full description  
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  • Steel foundations of tall office buildings...
    Item #633383
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, December 8, 1894  The front page has an article with illustrations "Steel Foundations of Tall Office Buildings" which continues inside the issue. Also in the issue is: "The Ancient Roman Bridge at Mostar"; "The Compass Field Glass"; "The Plaster Center Piece... Read full description  
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  • Building the Brooklyn Bridge...   The sea monster...
    Item #636295
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Aug. 4, 1877 

    * Brooklyn Bridge - East River
    * Under construction print


    The front page features two prints & an article: "Cable Making of the East River Bridge" which we now know as the Brooklyn Bridge. The balance of the issue is taken up with reports of other inventions and... Read full description  
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  • George Westinghouse, Engineer and Inventor...
    Item #636346
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, June 29, 1912, New York  The front cover is a photo of "George Westinghouse, Engineer and Inventor" with an accompanying article inside the issue. Inside the issue is: "A Journey in a Passenger-carrying Zeppelin Airship";  "The Galveston Causeway"; "New Ideas About... Read full description  
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  • The new freight steamer 'City of Fall River'...
    Item #636487
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, May 5, 1883  The entire front page features nice prints of the: "New Freight Steamer City of Fall River", with detailed text as well. Other items inside include: "Improved Double Cylinder Air Compressor" "Parker's Steam Digger" "Hill's Universal Grinding... Read full description  
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  • The wrought iron bridge at Pittsburgh...
    Item #633074
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Sept. 2, 1876  The front page features the "Wrought Iron Bridge at Pittsburgh, PA" with related text. Inside the issue are numerous articles: "New Steam Dredging Machine"; Universal Wood Worker and Six-Roll Planer, Matcher and Bender by the J. A. Fay & Co,; "Brice's Boat... Read full description  
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  • Thomas Edison's court case...  400th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in America...
    Item #636501
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Oct. 15, 1892  The front page shows: "The New Santa Maria, Replica of Columbus' Vessel, which is to be Sailed Across the Atlantic", celebrating the 400th anniversary. Items inside include: "Baker's Rocking Chair Fan" "Front View of the... Read full description  
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  • Boston's New Elevated Railroad...
    Item #636636
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, New York, November 2, 1901 The front page of this issue has five photos of "Boston's New Elevated Railroad." The largest photo shows the interior of the north terminal of Sullivan Square Station. A related article is inside. Other articles include: Four-Motor Equipments; The Bursting of Fowling Pieces; The... Read full description  
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  • Fire hydrant system...   Alexander Graham Bell... Motion pictures...
    Item #636677
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 4, 1910 

    * Firefighting - firetrucks

    The front page is captioned: "Fire Fighting Without Fire Engines" which shows the use of the new fire hydrant system (see).
    Within the issue: "A Commercial Rotary Engine" "A Giant Ruhmkorff Coil" "How to Escape... Read full description  
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  • Man in an electric chair...
    Item #637104
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 30, 1888  The ftpg. shows: "New Bridge Over Kill Van Kull--The Largest Draw in the World". This bridge connected New Jersey & New York via Staten Island.
    Inside has an illustration captioned: "Execution by Electricity, Shortly to Be Introduced in N.Y. State" with a related article on the... Read full description  
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  • Ice boating on the Hudon River...
    Item #637244
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Feb. 3, 1872  Within this issue is a 3/4 page illustration: "Ice Boating on the Hudson River" which would be very displayable. Other articles and illustrations include: "Fitt's New Road Steamer" "The Shaw & Justice Dead Stroke Power Hammer" and much more.
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  • Morse Dry Dock Company...
    Item #597582
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, N. Y., Apr. 21, 1900 The front page of this issue has three illustrations showing the: "700-Ft. Floating Dock On The Morse Dry Dock Company, Brooklyn". Text inside explains how the dock works. Other articles within are: "Siemens and Halske Omnibus Driven by Overhead Current", "Siemens and Halske Omnibus Driven by... Read full description  
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  • The Winton racing automobile...
    Item #637248
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Oct. 28, 1899  Inside has a nice photo of: "The Winton Racing Vehicle" with a related article. Other prints include: "Wireless Telegraphy at the Yacht Races" "Great Pier at Pot Los Angeles" 'The Isthmus, Catalina Island".
    Eight pages, perforated library stamp at the top, various... Read full description  
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  • Proposed bridge over the British Channel...
    Item #637495
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, May 21, 1870  The front cover has "Newell's Oscillating Sofa, Table and Couch for Vessels" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Deep-Sea Piers for a Proposed Bridge to Cross the British Channel"; "Komp's Combined Punching and Eyelet-Inserting Machine";... Read full description  
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  • Edison's latest...
    Item #637922
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, January 22, 1898  The front cover is a large print captioned: "The Edison Magnetic Concentrating Works - The Giant Rolls" with additional illustrations & text inside. Also inside: "An Improved Telephone Transmitter" "The King Gasoline Launch Engine" "The Mietz & Weiss Kerosene... Read full description  
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  • Road cleaning machine...  Voice inscribing speech...
    Item #637923
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Sept. 3, 1892  The front cover is captioned: "The New High-Service Water Tower, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Prospect Park Plaza". Within the issue are: "Betten's Rotary Engine" "J. J. Astor's Pneumatic Road-Cleaning Machine" "Abbot Rousselot's Apparatus for... Read full description  
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  • New York City Fire Department...
    Item #638524
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, September 14, 1867  This issue has a 1/3 page illustration "The Metropolitan Steam Fire Engine, No. 1., Employed by the New York Fire Department" with an accompanying article "Steam Fire Engines". Also within this issue is:"Howard's Patent Horse Rake"; "Franklin's... Read full description  
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  • The Panama Canal...
    Item #639514
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 3, 1905  The front cover has "History and Present Status of the Panama Canal" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Electric Mail Automobiles"; "Electric Dead Reckoner in Use on Yacht 'Valhalla'"; "The Grubb Gun-Sight"; and more articles, illustrations and... Read full description  
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  • Building the Brooklyn Bridge...   The sea monster...
    Item #639721
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Aug. 4, 1877  The front page features two prints & an article: "Cable Making of the East River Bridge" which we now know as the Brooklyn Bridge. The balance of the issue is taken up with reports of other inventions and scientific/mechanical improvements. Also included: "The Sea... Read full description  
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  • The Railroad at Philadelphia...
    Item #566248
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, NY, May 12, 1883.

    * The Pennsylvania Railroad Company 

    The front page has eight illustrations of "The Broad Street Passenger Station Of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company At Philadelphia", the largest of which gives an exterior view of the station.

    The issue is in good condition and is nice for display.
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  • Silverware manufacturing in 1874...
    Item #642178
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, May 12, 1877  This 16 page issue is in nice condition and contains illustrations of the latest inventions of the day including the following inventions: MANUFACTURING OF SILVERWARE - BRYANT VASE - CALCULATING MACHINE - FIRE ESCAPE & much more, with related text.
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  • Opium manufacturing...
    Item #642501
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, July 29, 1882  The front page is "The Manufacture of Opium" which is comprised of six illustrations with an accompanying article inside. Inside the issue are: "Drain Cutter"; "Taylor's Cutter Bar for Reapers and Mowers"; "Tasker's Improved Thompson Pulverizer"; "John Scott... Read full description  
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  • Moving a large hotel at Coney Island...
    Item #642502
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, April 14, 1888  The front cover has "Moving the Brighton Beach Hotel - General View of the Operations" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The New Steamship City of New York - 10,500 Tons, 560 Feet Length"; "The Roman Aqueduct at Nimes"; "The Waltham... Read full description  
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  • Madison Square Garden's Automobile Show...
    Item #642503
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, January 31, 1903  The front cover of the issue is entitled "A New Derrick or 'Grasshopper' Elevator for Unloading Grain from Vessels" which is comprised of two illustrations with an additional illustration within the issue. Within the issue is: "Test of the 16-inch Army gun at Sandy... Read full description  
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  • Truck transportation...
    Item #632987
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, August 17, 1918  The color cover page has "Forwarding Freight by Motor Truck Express to Relieve our Over-burdened Railroads" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Via Motor Truck"; "Motorized Railways"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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  • Erricsson's Caloric Engine...
    Item #644250
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, November 8, 1851 The front page has two illustrations of a "Steam Engine Regulator". Inside the issue are illustrations of "Erricsson's Caloric Engine" and "A  Cheap Cottage". Also inside is the ruling of an infringement of patent case dealing with the McCormick's Reaper. Additional... Read full description  
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  • Transporting by cableway... Curacao...
    Item #632299
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, May 24, 1913  The front cover has "Transporting a Locomotive on a Cableway" with accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Seeing Under Water"; "The Anesthetizing Machine of Prof. Dubois": "Agriculture, Electricity and Irrigation"; "Improving a Harbor of... Read full description  
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