An early issue of Scientific American magazine;
Vol. V No. 11, September 14, 1861
Printed in the Civil War era.
Published by Munn & Company at 37 Park Row, New York
9.75" x 13.75"
16 pages.

Scientific American has been print since 1845 ; it is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.

This issue includes the proclamation informing the people of the United States that Major-general John C. Fremont had declared martial law in the state of Missouri ; Fremont confiscated the property of Missourians in rebellion , arrested known secessionists , suspended newspapers charged with disloyalty , and announced the emancipation of the slaves of those who took action against the Union.
Fremont's proclamation shocked the nation and elicited outrage not only in Missouri but throughout the United States.
After Fremont refused the request of President Abraham Lincoln to change the order so that it frees only slaves formally participating in the Union war effort, Lincoln relieved him of his command.

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This issue includes :

Improvements in Sewing Machines
( invention of Louis Bollman of the Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company )

" The War "
1.  Proclamation by Major General John C. Fremont , Headquarters of the Western Department , St. Louis ( Missouri ), August 31, 1861
2.  Naval Expedition ( actions taken by the United States Navy on the Atlantic Coast to blockade the South )
3.  Privateers in Hatteras Inlet  , A Skirmish in Western Virginia , Remains of General Lyon , Parr's American Camp Chest

Correspondence
( relating to the War , including the arrest and imprisonment of " many ladies " of Washington D.C. who had " taken advantage of the privileges accorded to their sex to aid the enemy ". " Rumors say that we are to have a battle on the other side of the river soon...")

New Postage Stamps

Progress of the Work on the Fortress at Sandy Hook

Bessemer's Paper on his Process of Making Steel
( nearly 2 pages )
( Sir Henry Bessemer FRS [ 1813 -1898 ], English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century, for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950. ]

Revolution in Photography
( Joseph Eugene Balsamo discovers a substitute for nitrate of silver in positive printing of photographs [ hydrochloric acid saturated with phosphorus and diluted with acetate of copper ])

Discovery of New Basaltic Columns
( " at Dry Arroya , about a quarter of a mile from Sonora " , Tuolumne County , California )
[ today this is known as " Columns of the Giants " at Stanislaus National Forest ]

The New Spanish Rifled Artillery
( with illustration )

Socialism in Inventions
( a criticism of Sir William George Armstrong  [1810 -1900], English engineer and industrialist ; Armstrong " in so many words denied the natural right of the inventor to property in his own invention ."  Armstrong is accused of hypocrisy, being himself a holder of patents, while he sought to exploit the ideas of others for his own gain. )

Slinging and Working Guns
( with illustrations ; Gault's Expanding Projectile )

Scott Russell - Iron War Ships and Batteries
( constructig Iron War Vessels )


Also :
Telegraphing by Occultation of Lights
Aluminum Bronze - Brass
New Spanish Rifled Cannon
Trial of Steam Plows
Mad Dogs - Hydrophobia
Oxygen Decomposed
Peculiar Properties of Cocoa Leaves - experiments of Dr. Miemann , German Chemist
A Tiny Steamboat
Cunard Company Steam Fleet
Work set to begin on Montreal Street Horse Railway
Patent Claims for the week ending August 27, 1861
Recent American Inventions ( a mechanical control for Balloon aeronauts , splint basket improvement , oil press , etc. )
Arms sent to California
Profile Rock known as " Old man of the Mountain " in the White Mountains ( New Hampshire ) reached by E. S. Barrett of Concord Massachusetts - " this feat, a very perilous one, has been successfully achieved but once before "
Notes and Queries
Instructions about Eurpean Patents
Change in the Patent Laws
Classified Advertising


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Good Condition.
The paper is still quite bright.
A little edge wear.
3/4" tear at the right-center margin.
No writing, no markings.
Horizontal creases ( from having been folded ).
Otherwise very good.

Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.