Scientific American Magazine – 1850 to 1889 Issues

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Date of Issue:	Cover/Issue:	Condition:	Price
March 2, 1850	Hydrostatic Blowing Pipe	Good, stained	$12.50
May 4, 1850	Improved Grain Dryer, Improved Door Knobs	Good	$12.50

February 22, 1862	Blake’s Low Water Detector. Full-page map of War areas in Ketucky and Tennessee map within.	Good	$20.00
March 1, 1862	Ryder and Leonard’s Candle Molds	Good	$17.50
April 19, 1862	Map of the Battle of Newbern	Good	$17.50
December 6, 1862	Exploded Locomotive Boiler at Jersey City NJ	Good	$17.50
August 21, 1869	Maxim’s Patent Gas Machine	Good	$12.50

March 29, 1873	Wardwell’s Stone Quarrying Machine	Fair/Good	$7.50
December 3, 1873	Sugar Making Process	Good, tears	$12.50
April 8, 1876	Higginson’s Semi-Rotary Engine, etc.	Good, stain	$12.50
September 21, 1876	New Electric Light Apparatus by H.S. Maxim	Good	$20.00
October 25, 1879	Elevated Railway at 110^th Street & 8^th Avenue NYC	Good	$12.50

February 4, 1882	Design for a Passenger Bicycle	Good	$12.50
July 1, 1882	The Big Bell for St. Paul’s – London	Good	$12.50
August 12, 1882	Rochester Water Works – Fountain in Mount Hope Reservoir	Good	$12.50
October 14, 1882	Fireless Tramway Locomotive for Java	Good	$12.50
October 21, 1882	Captain C.G. Lundborg’s Fast Ocean Steamship	Good	$12.50
November 18, 1882	Crane for Transferring Cars to and From Ferry Boats in Quebec	Good	$12.50

February 2, 1883	Saw Mill with Top Saw	Good	$12.50
March 24, 1883	Works of the Buffalo Forge Company	Good, stain	$12.50
March 31, 1883	The Hyatt Filter No. 1 & 2	Good	$12.50
April 14, 1883	DePrez’s Experiment on the Transmission of Power From a Distance by Electricity	Good	$12.50
April 21, 1883	New Italian Ship of War Lepanto	Good	$12.50
April 28, 1883	Great Dam Across the Ottawa River Canada	Good	$12.50
June 2, 1883	New York and Brooklyn Bridge – Brooklyn Station and Engine Room	Good, spotting	$12.50
August 4, 1883	Improved Reversing Rail Mill Engines	Good	$12.50
September 8, 1883	Economic Motor Company’s Gas Engine Applied To Pumping	Good	$12.50
September 15, 1883	Compound Blake Steam Pump with Condenser, Sword Swallowers	Good	$12.50
November 17, 1883	The New United States Ship of War Atlanta	Good, cover detached	$12.50
December 15, 1883	Equatorial Telescope of the Paris Observatory	Good, light staining	$12.50
December 22, 1883	New United States Cruiser – The Dispatch Boat “Dolphin”	Good	$12.50

January 19, 1884	Application of Electricity to Tunneling	Good	$12.50
January 26, 1884	Rock Work on New York, West Shore, and Buffalo Railway	Not Available	NA
February 2, 1884	Improved Crank Shaft Lathe	Good	$12.50
February 9, 1884	Ice Yachting On the Hudson – Watching a Regatta	Good	$15.00
February 16, 1884	Floating Steam Fire Engines of New York	Fair/Good, tears	$7.50
February 23, 1884	The Lost “Jeannette” – In the Arctic	Good	$12.50
March 8, 1884	Great Lifting Wheels of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Co., Lake Superior	Good, back cover torn	$12.50
April 5, 1884	Movable Stage at The Madison Square Theater, The new Dynamite Gun	G/VG	$12.50
April 19, 1884	Inner Apartment of Chaacmol’s Monument, with Stone Altar Supported by Fifteen Caryatides, Atmospheric Turbine, Improved Torpedo Boat	Good	$12.50
May 31, 1884	The Manufacture of Locomotives – Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia	Good	$12.50
June 7, 1884	New System of Wrought iron Tube For Cable Railways, Improved Steam Hammer	G/VG	$12.50
June 14, 1884	The Jessup & Moore Works – Manufacture of Fine Printing Papers for Books, Periodicals, etc., Ice Machine	G/VG	$12.50
September 13, 1884	The Shipman Engine, Apparatus for Hydrating Lime, The Victorian Gunboats	Good, tear and stains	$12.50
December 27, 1884	Interoceanic Ship Railway – A Steamer in Transit	Good, tears	$12.50

January 17, 1885	The Stiles Improved Press. Ice Planing and Ridging Machine, A Study of the Navies of Antiquity	G/VG, spine splitting	$12.50
February 7, 1885	Railway Bridge Over The River Indus. An Aztec Warrior, Registering Thermometers and Pressure Gauges	Good	$12.50
April 4, 1885	Supplement – Theodore Billroth, Honigmann Fireless Engine, Korting’s Jet Ventilator	Good, light staining	$12.50
April 18, 1885	Supplement – Improvement in Equatorial Telescopes, Asbestos, The Hammer Telephone	Good, cover detached	$12.50
May 2, 1885	Supplement – Timber Dry Dock, The Corvette Alexandrine of the German Navy	Good	$12.50
May 9, 1885	Supplement – The Creusot One Hundred Steam Hammer, Cordenons’ Seismograph	Not Available	NA
June 6, 1885	The New War Ships of the British Navy. Power Shears for Cutting Sheet Metal, The White Nosed Monkey	Good, cover detached	$10.00
June 23, 1885	The Torpedo Boat Rattlesnake. Portable Magic Lantern	Good	12.50
July 4, 1885	The Great French Bange Gun. Improved Shaping Machine, Thoroughbred Cattle	G/VG	$12.50
August 15, 1885	The Great American Dredges of the Panama Canal. The French Dispatch Torpedo Boat La Bombe, English Military Railway	Good	$12.50
October 3, 1885	Floating Depositing Dock and Hydraulic Grid Dock	Good	$12.50
December, 1885	A Great Sewer Built By Improved Method of Tunneling, in Brooklyn, N.Y., Candelabra Cactus and California Woodpecker	Good, stain	$12.50
January 2, 1886	Supplement -- Flood Rock Explosion, Hell Gate	Fair, tears and gouges back pages	$7.50

January 7, 1888	Holly Manufacturing Company, Ferdinand Vanderveer Hayden	Not Available	NA
March 17, 1888	Lick Observatory and Its Great Telescope	Good	$12.50
April 28, 1888	Manufacture of Scientific Apparatus – J.W. Queen & Co.	Good	$12.50
May 5, 1888	Removing Snow from Railroad Tracks	G/VG	$12.50
May 12, 1888	Launching of U. S. Gunboat Yorktown and the Dynamite Gunboat Vesuvius	Good	$12.50
June 9, 1888	The U. S. Armored Battle Ship Texas, John Chisholm’s Escape from Lightning	Good	$12.50
June 23, 1888	The Torpedo Boat Rattlesnake	Good	$12.50
June 30, 1888	New Bridge Over Kill Von Kull, Mason & Hamlin Grand Piano	Good, tear at back	$12.50
July 21, 1888	New Cable Driving Plant of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge	Good	$12.50
August 4, 1888	The Italian War Ship Italia	Good	$12.50
August 11, 1888	Gate House and Northern Terminus of the New York Aqueduct	G/VG	$12.50
	Same	Good, edge tears	$10.00
August 25, 1888	The New “Times” Building, New York – 2 copies	G/VG	$12.50
September 1, 1888	Timber Raft from Joggins Nova Scotia cover – 2 copies	G/VG	$12.50
	Same	Good	$10.00
September 8, 1888	Thompson’s Gravity System for Rapid Transit	Good, tears	$12.50
September 29, 1888	Proposed Bridge with Movable Floor Over the River Bilboa, Spain	Good	$12.50
October 13, 1888	Launch of the U. S. Steel Cruiser Baltimore at Philadelphia	G/VG	$12.50
October 20, 1888	Highest Chimney In U.S., Recently Erected at Clark Thread Works	Good, chew at top	$12.50
October 27, 1888	Great Gas Holder of Consolidated Gas Co. NY, The Lebel Gun,	Good, gouge at bottom	$12.50
November 3, 1888	The Dynamite Cruiser Vesuvius. The Florida Manatee	Good	$12.50
November 10, 1888	Great Pontoon Draw Bridge Over the Missouri River	Good	$12.50
November 24, 1888	The Steamship Thingvalla, After Collision at Sea with the Steamer Geiser. Improved Floating Scouring Dam	G/VG	$12.50
December 1, 1888	New United States Monitor Terror. The Thorenberg Electric Plant	G/VG	$12.50
December 29, 1888	New Military Engine For Throwing Dynamite Shells – 2 copies	Good	$12.50

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