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Original 1926 Scientific American Magazine Bound Volume 135 - 6 Issues July, August, September, October, November, DecemberCondition: Very Good +, black Quarter Leather and buckram bound, corner bumps, with library label inside front board, "The Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library" ink stamps on front edge of each issue. 10.5" x 14" Tall with 432 pages.Each monthly Issue has Color Illustration on outside front cover, with advertisements.Examples:July - Cover Modern Farming by Howard Brown, Whence the Indian by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Latest of Our Great Bridges, August - Cover, Modern Method of Moving Monsters, Parachute Jumper many photos, Ancient Salt Mines of the Indians St. Thomas NevadaSeptember - Cover St. George Reef Light, California, The Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil Trans African Motor ExpeditionOctober - Cover, Deep Sea Lantern BearersNovember - Cover Busy MoMent on the Bridge, Radio Styles for 1926-1927December - Cover Recording Results of Scientific Breeding Cattle, Cathode-Ray Tube, 6 Million… Read More

Scientific American, 1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: April 14, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2154 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs, front cover illustration ""The Powder Charge for a Big Naval Gun"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: A Religious Ceremony of the Hopi Indians Europe at Turkey's Door: Historic, Geographic and Economic Data Bearing on Its Future The Metronome in the Workshop Mechanical Difficulties in the Evolution of the Steam Turbine A Navy Ammunition Depot The Silver Voltameter As An International Standard for the Measurement of Electric Current Graphic Charts: The Use of the Logarithmic Scale for Charting Statistics The Healing Art -I: Legends and Lore of its Genesis and more articles!

Scientific American, 1881. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: June 18, 1881, Vol. XLIV, No. 25 Size and Page Count: 11"" X 16.5"" Tall, 16 pages
Condition: Very Good, yellowing on edges, small 1/2"" tears on edge, disbound, complete
Illustration Information: Includes many engravings of ""Professor A. E. Dolbear's New Telephonic System"", ""Strange Fish"", also includes engraving of the ""Lump Fish"" and others. Also includes many vintage advertisements! -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains articles on:

A New Telephone System Medical Patents and Trade Marks
Feast of Strange Fish
Double Tongue for Havesters
Recent Inventions
A New System of Telephony
Silk Culture in America
Photographing the Vibrations of the Voice
New Book Protector
Improved Wind Motor
The Lump Fish
Wastefulness in the Use of Steam Roles and Queries
Index of Inventions
And many more

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: June 9, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2162 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, slight foxing on inside of first page, one page detached, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs, front cover illustration ""A Gusher Near Shamrock, Oklahoma, that flows 2,500 barrels of oil a day"" ------ Contains: The Periodic Submergence of Europe Hebert's Views of 1857 by Charles SchuchertThe Carriage of Disease by InsectsStreet Cleaner by Frank C. Perkins with photo and illustrationConservation of Teeth by Frank B. Gilbreth with photosExtracting Benzol from Coal GasCuban Jungle Sugar Plantation by P. ShiveOil Making Millionaires by O. R. Geyer with photosHuman Measurements and "Resistance Formulas"Reform of Food DistributionInsects that Decieve by Dr. J. Bergner with photosOrganization of… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: October 27, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2182 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Very Good! Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with tear and small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs of museum of Mushrooms, front cover illustration ""Launching Bridge Pontoons Down a Mountain-Side"" ------The Measurement of High Temperatures: Considerations by Henry Le ChatelierRelating to the Selection of a Standard of ComparisonTesting War Cripples: Scientific Estimation of Equitable Pensions and Indemnities with photos and illustrationsItalian War EngineeringThe Scientific Detection of Crime by Matthew J. EderThe Field of Vision: The Effect of Harnessing Up Indirect Vision by Dolphus E. CompereWild Mustrooms: A Valuable Addition to Our Food Supplies by William A. Murrill with photosShip Model Experiments:… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: December 1, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2187 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Very Good! Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes and small tear, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many sketches of ""Pseudo Coffees"", front cover illustration ""Italian Soldiers Hoisting a Powerful Howitzer to a Mountain Top"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ The War's Effect on Merchant Shipbuilding-I by Homer L. FergusonModern Locomotives By T.A.FoqueA Gun the Italians Lost Imitation or Pseudo Coffees: Many Substitutes to Which the War has Called AttentionThe Ethnology of ScotlandOsmotic Pressure by Professor W.C. McC. LewisThe Relics of Old-Time Justice by Percy Collins with PhotosFish Hatching Systems by A. RobertsonFlint Fracture and Flint Implements in… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: August 18, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2172 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Very Good! Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs of "" The Largest Reflecting Telescope in the World "", front cover illustration ""Dome that Houses the 100-Inch Telescope on Mr. Wilson"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: The Soldier's Foot: an Important Feature of an Effective Army The Breadfruit Anomalies in the Animal World -Part III: Animals that Wear Armor, With Remarks on the Different Species and Their Habits The Devopment of Commercial Dirigibles: A Problem Now being Seriously Considered in England and Germany The Largest Reflecting Telescope in the World: Making the Great Mirror, And Transporting it Up the… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: January 6, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2140 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs , front cover illustration ""Armored Automobiles"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: The Municipality in Industrial Hygiene Trajectories of Projectiles Discharged at an Elevation of 45 Degrees Armored Automobiles -A war machine that has undergone many changes Decay of the Teeth-Susceptibility to and Immunity from Caries Wolfs Comet (1916) The Pottery Tree Indian Dances of the Southwest -Ceremonies Symbolic of Events of Daily Life Obstacles to Success in Engineering The Essex Zeppelin- Outlines of Zeppelin Design Preparing an Offensive- Principles and Methods of Trench Fighting The Temporary Stars -… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: November 10, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2184 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Very Good! Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, with many photographs of ""Origin and Evolution of Life"" and ""Stenographic Machines"", front cover illustration ""The Tyrannosaurus, a Carnivorous Mechanism, Interpreted as an Offensive Energy Complex"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Hours of Labor: Industrial Fatigue and Output in England Air Mastery at Ypres Belgium Air Battle -(Wikipedia: Battle of Passchendaele (31 July – 10 November, 1917) also known as the Third Battle of Ypres. 400,000 to 800,000 casualties.)The Soldier and the Cigarette 'The Origin and Evolution of Life': A Review of Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn's Latest… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: June 23, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2164 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, slight foxing on inside of first page, one page detached, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs, front cover illustration ""A Dash Into the Enemies Lines"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: The Science of Naval Architecture by David Watson Taylor Armored Cars Being Developed in America World War I with large photo - The Chronaximeter with illustrations developed by Professor Marcelle Lapicque. A New Apparatus for Electro-Diagnosis of motor nerves. - The Fly Menacce The Planetary Origin of Water Ball Mills for Grinding Ore Whale and Seal Meat for Human Food The Influence of Speed on Endurance Tests and more articles!

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: December 29, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2191 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with tear and illustration damaged in center, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, 8 photographs of museum of Neanderthals, front cover illustration ""Stone Age Scene"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ The Rejuvenation of Earth and Man: Clean Culture Nature's Method Train Control: Automatic Brake Operation--Improving the Automobile Engine by R.M.Anderson-- Engine Popularizing Anthropology A New Heliograph Recent Progress in Pyrometry

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: May 12, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2158 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, one page detached, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs, front cover illustration ""Riveting the Deck Plates on a Ship with an Automatic Hammer Operated by compressed Air"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Physiological Role of Calcium in Plants The Thickness of the Atmosphere of Jupiter Modern Ideas of Cosmogony Astonomy by Frederick C. Leonard Jacoons of Malay by Andrew T. Sibbald with photos End of the War Agar-Agar in Treating War Wounds The Shortage of Ships The Marseilles-Rhone Canal with several illustrations Precision in Chemical Weighing-Ii Study of the Screw Propeller by C.H. HoistSilent Warfare -Silencers by Nicholas Flamel and… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: September 15, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2176 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Very Good! Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many sketches of ""Proper Methods of Turpentining"", front cover illustration ""By Means of this Signal Gun a Beam of Light is Flashed Only in One Direction"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains:Some of the Evolutionary Consequences of War: Influences Unimportant Save That They Result in More Stringent Selection of Women The Great Bell of Moscow Signalling Between Ships at Sea A Convenient Testing Machine Old Sundials ""Soldier's Heart"": A Misleading Term Applied Indiscriminately to a Variety of Symptoms Proper Methods of Turpentining: Increased Yield Obtained Without Serious Injury… Read More

Original 1923 Scientific American Magazine Bound Volume 128 - 6 Issues January, February, March, April, May, June of 1923Condition: Very Good +, black Quarter Leather and buckram bound, corner bumps, with library label inside front board, "The Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library" ink stamps on front edge of each issue. 10.5" x 14" Tall with 432 pages.Each monthly Issue has Color Illustration on outside front cover, with advertisements.Some Examples:January - Surfacing and polishing the ice for the skaters, Relativity--And Other Things by J. Malcolm Bird - Motion Pictures that talk and 3 Dimensions - Arthur Conan Doyle​ (Sherlock Holmes) personal letter to editors about The Psychic CompetitionFebruary - Putting the Steam Turbine on Wheels: Sweden's Locomotive of Revolutionary Design front and page 91 - Long Distance Telephone Problems - Hudson River TunnelMarch - Salvaging Submerged Treasures with Deep-Sea Suit and Torch, front cover and page 163 on - New Microphone, Electricity Magnifies the… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: August 11, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2152 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs , front cover illustration ""Women Munitions workers operating drilling machines in a Canadian factory"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: World Wide Changes of Temperature - Can Seasonal Forecasts Be Made from a Study of the Weather of the World? The Cohune Palm - A Central American Tree, the Nuts of Which Produce a Valuable Oil Importance of the Relation of Solid Surfaces and Liquid Films in Some Types of Engineering Construction Boiler Efficiency The Value of High-Level Meteorological Data -I - In forecasting Changes of Temperature Weighing Apparatus in Industrial… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: August 25, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2173 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Very Good! Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs of "" ""Iron-Stemmed"" Carnation "", front cover illustration ""Blowing up a German Stronghold with High Explosives"" -------Contains:The Complexity of the Atom: Considered from Both a Chemical and a Physical Point of ViewA Highly Sensitive Electrometer by Frederick SoddyDisappearing Guns for Submarines: A Method Devised in France for Operating (with Diagrams) by Louis DayralEvery Man a Leader: Notes on the Psychology of Leadership by George Van Ness Dearborn"Iron-Stemmed" Carnation: Growing Improved varieties in Paris by Jaques BoyerClearing the Way for an AdvanceNew AntisepticsChemical Reactions of Iron Smelting: A Review… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: September 22, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2177 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Very Good! Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many sketches of ""the Crow and his Cousins"", front cover illustration ""Primitive Bridge Over the Jheelum River in India"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Osmotic Pressure in Animals and Plants-I: Difference in Conditions Under Which These Divisions of Living Matter Have Developed Earth Pressures by W.R.G.AtkinsSome of the World's Most Notable Bridges with many illustrations/photosIntegrating Tachometers by Commander L.A.Kaiser with PhotoA Substitute for Litmus for Use as an Indicator in Milk Cultures Wm. Mansfield ClarkDestroying the Crow and his Cousins: Birds that Consume… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: February 10, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2145 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, disbound issue, small piece of tape on front page edge, one page has come loose from binding Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs , front cover illustration ""Halibut fishing on the Pacific Coast"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: The Contributions of Geodesy to Geography-by derermining the Size and Shape of the Earth by William BowieAnomalies in the Animal World -Flying Mammals: Flightless Birds and Other Curious Forms by B.W. Shufeldt with many photos1915 Comet by Edward Emerson BarnardPromoting Our Supplies of Food Fishes with photosCapillary and Electrocapillary Chemistry-I -by W. C. McC. Lewis A Survey of the More Important Phenomena, and… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: March 17, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2150 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs , front cover illustration ""The Signal Squad leaving the trenches to follow up an advance force with a telephone line"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: What is a Disease -II -by Charles Mercier An Attempt to Formulate Definitions of the Fundamental Concepts of Medicine How Eclipses Occur-I by Frederick R. Honey-And the Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 1917-18 Stone and Concrete Road Foundations by Geo. C. WarrenMan and The Universe - His True Perspective as Through a Telescope Reversed Gravity by C. M. KilbyGravity- An Account of Observations Made in Canada by F. A.… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: October 13, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2180 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Very Good! Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, front cover with small holes, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs of the Archeological Investigations in the Virgin Islands, front cover illustration ""The 'Great Harry' of 1514"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Ultra-Violet Radiation: In Relation to Treatment by Ultra-Violet Rays Rainfall and Gunfire War Ships Old and New: Changes that Surpass the Wildest Flights of Fiction The James River Bridge Adaptation and Disease Archaeological Investigations in the Virgin Islands: To Solve the Riddle of the Origin of Their Aborigines The Fumigation of Greenhouses: The Effect on Plans, and Some Practical Suggestions The Making of a… Read More