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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

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: July 28, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2169 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 waterspout in the Gulf of Genoa"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Forecasting the Seasons The Internal Secretions: Chemical Factors in the Regulation of the Organism The Life History of a Wasp Shown in Pictures Engineering in the Great European War: Former Tactics and Strategy have Become Subordinate Factors The Electrical Properties of Gases-III Heredity and Sex: Mendelism and Some of Its Recent Developments The Unipolar Dynamo and Its Future Grain Size Measurements in Metals And More!

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: March 10, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2149 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 ""The Ancient Capitals Of Lanka"" -------- Contains: What is a Disease - An Attempt to Formulate Definitions of the Fundamental Concepts of Medicine The Use of Iron by Primitive Man - and the Sources from Which It Was Obtained Amateur Astronomical Photography - An Easily Constructed Camara for the Telescope New Railway Lines Projected in Russia Tunneling Under a River - Difficulties Encountered in the Subway Work in New York The Ancient Capitals of Lanka - Wonderful Ruins in Ceylon That Antedate the Christian Era On the Correct Adjustment of Chemical Weights How Waste Paper Is Used In Paper Mills The Earth's… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: February 3, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2144 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 great forty-inch refractor at the Yerkes Observatory, with adjustable floor nearly at its lowest point -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Evolution and Mendelism - the response of organism to changes in stimulation The Planetesimal Hypothesis- the result of the close approach of Two Suns Two Important American Observatories - where practical and theoretical work of great value is done Treatment of Overexposed Photographic Negatives - the prevention of reversal or solarization Observations Upon Ants Vaporizing Formalin Can the Velocity of Water Be Measured (by passing… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: July 21, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2168 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 view seen from lookout point in the Coconino National Forest, in Arizona, 10,500 feet above sea level"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Is the Atlantic Coast Sinking? Douglas W. Johnson Protecting our Timber Resources by Arthur L. Dahl with photos Trees and Plant Pests by Charles Lester Marlatt with PhotosExperimental Study of a Theory of the Complex Zeeman Effect by A. E. Becker with photos The Electrical Properties of Gasses II by J. J. ThomsonNatural Measurement of Time -II by N. T. DupuisSighting Telescopes for Fire Arms by Ernest CoustetThe Meaning of Bird Music… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: August 11, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2171 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, one page detached, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs of ""Effect of Weather on Forest Fires "", front cover illustration ""An Earlier Stage in the Development of a very severe thunderstorm"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: The Nature of Matter-I: This is not a Universe of Dead Atoms, But of Active Energy Muscular Power and Endurance of the Human Body: As Revealed by the Mechanics of Motion (With many diagrams) Explorations in the Hawaiian Islands Weird Diseases of Africa The Effect of the Weather on Forest Fires: With Particular Reference to Conditions in California The Electrical Properties of… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: February 24, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2147 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 ""Workmen attempting to extinguish a burning oil tank -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: A New Method of Studying Ideational And Allied Forms of Behavior in Man and Other Animals The Mystery of Metals Lightning- Investigations of Time Interval Between Apllication of High Voltage and Failure of Insulation The Pyrogenesis of Hydrocarbons Fires in the Oil Fields Photos and Front Cover Shamrock Oklahoma Coconut Toddy in Ceylon by K.C.Browning Illusions of the Upper Air - A review of progress in Meteorological Theory in England Since 1866 by Sir Napier Shaw Fraud and Skin… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: June 2, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2161 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 ""How the American despatch rider appears in peace-time maneuvers"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: The Organization of Thought-by Alfred North Whitehead The Beginnings of War Machines with illustrations Aviation and Aerography by Alexander McAdie with ChartsThe Motorcycle in War The Brownian Movement of Electrified Particles in Gasses-II by Dr. A. Schidlof Oriental Architecture in Reinforced Concrete Stellar Evolution by R.H.Curtiss with photosMaintenance of Management The Relation of Light to Architectural Interiors… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: March 24, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2151 Size and Page Count: 10.5"" X 15.5"" Tall, app. 16 pages Condition: Good, Corners sharp, pages clear, library stamp on cover, pg. 186 coming loose from binding, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs, front cover illustration ""How the Government Protects Its Revenues"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: The Biochemical Analysis of Nutrition by Carl L. Alsberg How Eclipses Occur -II Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 1917-1918 with illustrations and charts Inferences Concerning Auroras - And Certain Physical Facts Regarding Them by Elihu ThomsonHow Uncle Sam Protects His Revenues - The Work of the Appraisers Stores in New York Structural Engineering - Some things we do not know Graphical Control - On the Exception Principle for Executives The Movements of the Earth's… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: September 29, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2178 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, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs of Rangers fighting Forest Fires, front cover illustration ""Forest Ranger Beating Out a Fire in One of the National Forests in Oregon"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ The Origin of the Solar System: An Outline of the Three Principal Hypotheses The Great Canadian Telescope: a Notable Addition to the Cause of Astronomical Research The Refractometry and Identification of Glass Specimens: a Ready Method of Determination for Labratory Use The Reality of Atoms Fighting Forest Fires: How they Occur, and Means Taken for their Preventions Osmotic Pressure in Animals and Plants-II:… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: September 1, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2174 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 Photos of ""Metallurgical Processes in the Foundry"", front cover illustration ""Digging Crude Sphalt in the Trinidad Pitch Lake"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Mimicry in Animals: A New Theory of Inherited Experimental Knowledge Use of Titanium in Steel Castings Metallurgical Processes in the Foundry: Use of Ferromanganese-Ferrosilicon-Chills and Iron Molds Asphalt: Where it Comes from and some of its Characteristics The Projection of Light: a Simple Method of Considering the Important Factors A Qualitative Determination of the Reflection Coefficients of Some Metals in… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: March 3, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2148 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, one page has a small piece of tape at binding, disbound issue, middle page is coming loose Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs , front cover illustration ""The Magogany Tree"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Some Present-Day Techno-Chemical Problems Trenching by Machinery Seaweeds - Some of their Economic Uses and Possibilities The Mahoany Tree - Most Valuable Member of Tropical American Forests Photo-Micrography for the Amateur Electrical Treatment of the Wounded - Recent Methods Developed During the War Methods for Preserving Bread - for French Prisoners in Germany and more articles

Scientific American, 1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: April 28, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2156 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 ""A Branched Candlestick Carved from a Solid Block of Wood"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Carving in Wood Atlantis: And the Permanency of the North Atlantic Ocean Bottom The Problem of the Crippled Soldier: How to Put Him on the Pay Roll Limitations of Stained Glass: A Comparison of Ancient and Modern Methods Engineering Precautions in Radio Installations A One-Quarter Horse-Power Single-Phase Induction Motor-I: Complete Details and Instructions for Building The Function of Pressure in Chemical Problems: An Important Field for… Read More

Scientific American, 1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: April 21, 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, one page detached, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, many photographs, front cover illustration ""A Multiple Spindle Drill in a Toledo Automobile Factory"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Training in Military Aviation: The Methods of the British Schools Quantity Production: How Automobile Building has Stimulated Mechanical Processes Damage to Seasoned Hard Wood By Lyctus Beetles Anomalies in the Animal World-II: Flying Mammals and Flying Rodents The Non Recoil Gun: A Novel Weapon that Promises to be an Important Factor in War The Healing Art- II: Legends and Lore of its Genesis and more articles!

Scientific American, 1920. soft. Original Edition New York Date and Numbering: -26 Issues - January 3 1920 to June 26 1920, Bound Size and Page Count: 10.75"" X 13.75"" Tall, 720 Pages Condition: Good, Half Black leather bound with black buckram hard boards, hinges repaired, edges, corners worn, Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library label inside of front board, text block tight, light to medium water stain on lower outside corners, Complete Illustrations Information: Each of the twenty six 30 page issues is full of photos, illustrations and advertisements, Index on last pages -------- An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian --------- Articles and Information: Here is a scan of some of the articles that start with A ACETYLENE, competitor for... 61 ADHESIVE FROM SNAILS . .. . 459 Aeronautics. Constriction. Air bags for water landing. *489 Airplanes *162 Do Germans lead Forerunners of flying liners.*667 Helicopter 245 .Helicopter, 185 Helicopter, man sized . . ... *331… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: December 15, 1917, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2189 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 punches on edges, disbound issue. Illustrations Information: Small illustrations or sketches in most pages, 3 photographs of Soldiers in World War I and many of the Danish West Indies, front cover illustration ""A Working Squad of British Troops Renovating a Water Supply behind the Lines"" --- Prehistoric Classification: Steps in the Determination of the Age of Man by W. J. Lewis Abbot Magic Behind the Trenches: Technical Work as Important as Fighting - Engineers with 3 photos and Cover Photo Chemical Labratory Porcelain by Henry Watkin War-Time Smuggling Archaelogical Notes on the Danish West Indies by Theodoor de Booy with Photos Companions of the Sun-II: Some of the More Intimate Features of the Solar System How the Sun, Earth… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: April 7, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2153 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 ""Vulcan's Face- A Peculiar Smoke Cloud Seen During the Eruption"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Relativity and Gravitation: A discussion of Attempts to Bring Gravitation Within the Scope of the Principles of Relativity Cast Iron Growth The Baghdad Railway The Metric System: The International Language of Weights and Measures Eruption of Lassen Peak: Meteorological and Seismological Considerations Progressive Oxidation of Cold-Storage Butter: An Investigation of Causes of… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: May 26, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2160 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 ""A Little Artist Developing his Talent at a 'Settlement House'"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: The Brownian Movement of Electrified Particles of Gases-I Rattan of Commerce Teaching Children to be Useful Zuni Chronology Waste in Coal Production Probable Immigration after the War The Equipment of an Army The Limitations of Standardized Shipbuilding Anomolies of the Animal World-I II Steel and Steel Alloys and more articles

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: June 16, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2163 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 ""Adzmen shaping a timber for a wooden ship"" -------- Contains: American Indian Languages Study by Truman MichelsonMonths of the Eskimo Year-Detecting the Pretense of Deafness Iron Casting by Benj. D. FullerThe Revival of Wooden Shipbuilding - 5 Photos and front cover - Faulty Constructions that Obscure Facts by John Wenzel Graphical StatisticianProtecting Merchant Vessels Against SubmarinesCotton and Wool Finishing by W. Harrison Hydraulic Power in Spain Flicker Phenomena Physiographic Subdivision of the United States A Motor Ambulance Driver's Notes from the Front World War… Read More

1917. soft. Original Edition Printing Location: New York Date and Numbering: July 14, 1917, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2167 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 Hartebeest group with African groundwork, in the National Museum, Washington, Built by James Clark"" -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains:Automatic Pistols by H. Volta with illustrations of history of automaticsThe Impact Origin of the Moon's Craters The Indian Silk Industry The Art of Modern Taxidermy by Carl Hawes ButmanThe Electrical Properties of Gasses-by J.J.Thomson Automatic Pistols The Conservation of Garments in Laundering and more articles