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 110th Street & 8th 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 BridgeBrooklyn 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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