Original, antique print issue. Packed a lot of information into a minimal amount of space, so be aware, that some articles are much shorter than others, sometimes only a paragraph or two.

COMPLETE LIST OF CONTENTS:

• Tobacco Manufacture
• The Atlantic Telegraph Cable—Its Faulty Construction
• Paull's Ore-Washer
• New Method of Bread Making
• Improved Furnace Bars
• Dip of the Magnetic Needle
• Emigration to the United States and British North America
• Russia Made to Pay up
• The Texas Grasshoppers Turned Cannibals
• Selling Coal by Weight
• Recent Patented Improvements
• Re-Pointing Gold Pens
• Experiments with Paints
• Encouragement to Old Folks at Home
• The Vibrations of Dams Settled
• Improved Cut-Off for Steam Engines
• Steam Fire Engines
• Removing Scale from Boilers
• Rague's Patent Car Coupling
• The Commissioner's Report—How It Takes
• False Gas Meters
• Burning Fluid Recipe
• Baldwin's Water Wheel
• Atmospherical Phenomena
• Artesian Wells in the Desert
• Wine Adulteration
• Artesian Wells
• American Horse-Tamer in London
• The Duke of Wellington and Railroads
• Is Charcoal Liable to Spontaneous Combustion?
• Inspectors of Steamboats
• Gas-Lighting—Article I
• The Crampon for Horses' Hooves
• Transmission of Fevers
• Mechanics
• New Self-Lighting Lantern
• Science in Sports

Scientific American was a leading science and technology publication of the 19th century and it is still in print today. Each issue is a large, oversized (elephant folio) format, handsomely illustrated with several detailed engravings. This issue will be sent housed in a plastic archival sleeve with a stiff backing in which you can store the article for safekeeping or easily remove and reinsert it.

Original print issue. Antique. Good condition. Was removed from a bound volume and shows some roughness and small binding holes at the spine edge. Some creasing. Clean text with minimal tanning, foxing and dampstaining to the paper. Complete. No odors. Non-smoking environment.

MEASUREMENT: 
Approx. 10-1/2" x 15-1/4"

PAGINATION: 
8 pages with several engravings and a page of wonderful, old classified advertising.

 

 

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