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Scientific American

Scientific American is a magazine for a general, scientifically-literate reader on issues and developments in science and technology.

Publication History

Scientific American began publication with the August 28, 1845 issue, as a weekly serial. A new series, numbered again from Volume 1, began with the July 2, 1859 issue. It went to monthly publication for the November 1921 issue (ending a separate monthly serial that had started with a January 1920 issue). The magazine is still published today on a monthly basis.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1845,1846: An archive at Rochester has the first 8 issues of Volume 1 (August 28 - October 16, 1845), and issues 1 and 12 from Volume 2 (September 26 and December 12, 1846), in tabular text form with illustrations. It also has an index for volumes 3-14 of the original series of volumes. The site is frame-dependent.
• 1846-1869: An archive at Cornell has the complete run of volume 2, number 1, to the end of the first series, and volumes 1-21 of the second series. The issues appear as page images.
• 1867-1880: Project Gutenberg has transcriptions of a few issues from the second series.

Official Site / Current Material

• The offical Scientific American web site includes news items, contents listings and excerpts from current and recent back issues. Full content from 1993 onward is also available for a per-article or subscription fee.

Related Resources

• Much interesting content during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was published in the Scientific American Supplement, which is also going online.

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