-- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN -- September 27, 1879 -- Original Issue --

Verlag: Munn & Co., New York, 1879

Beschreibung

An original, complete issue of 16 pages dated September 27, 1879 - On page 204 it is noted that on August 26, 1879 patent # 218,866 was issued to T. A. EDISON for "Electric Lighting Apparatus", on page 198 there is an article and engraving titled "EDISON's New Telephone", this is a historic event and highly desireable to collectors of Edison's work and scientific events -- Other items of note with engravings are: page 194 "Reynier's Electric Lamp", page 195 "Practical Experiments in Magnetism", page 199 "Giant Insect of New Guinea", plus many others -- As always the pages of advertisements are fascinating -- 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 000072

Bibliografische Details

Titel: -- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN -- September 27, 1879...

Verlag: Munn & Co., New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1879

Einband: Disbound

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition - Original Issue