-- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN -- October 25, 1879 -- Original Issue --

Verlag: Munn & Co., New York, 1879

Beschreibung

An original, complete issue of 16 pages dated October 25, 1879 -- On page 268 it is noted that on September 23, 1879 the following patent was REISSUED to T. A. EDISON-patent # 8,906 for "Telegraph Repeater,Quadraplex", this is an historic event and highly desireable to collectors of Edison's work and scientific events -- Other items of note with engravings are: Front page titled "Elevated Railway at 110th street and Eighth Avenue, New York City", plus many others -- the publisher proclaims their publication to be "A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures". -- Frank Luther Mott, winner of The Pulitzer Prize for his History of American Magazines, states that "The Scientific American had a significance--at least for its first sixty or seventy years--unapproached in kind and effect by any other periodical". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000059

Bibliografische Details

Titel: -- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN -- October 25, 1879 -...

Verlag: Munn & Co., New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1879

Einband: Disbound

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Edition - Original Issue