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What looks like a specialized antenna, perhaps on board ship. Radio, sound, and electronics. Source: MagazineArt.org Physical Archives Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, communication
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"Scouting on the Tigris River: A British reconnoitering party gliding at express-train speed in a hydroplane fitted with an aeroplane power plant" during the Middle East campaigns of World War One.
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, WW1
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Dec 14, 2018
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J. M. Mitchell
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Drilling rock by means of energy transmitted through a liquid column. Building construction, foundations, excavation. Artist: J. M. Mitchell Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of this website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, mining
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The manufacture of Hemlock sole leather -- "Brunswick" tannery of Hoyt Brothers, New York. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, shoes
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Dec 20, 2018
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Sarkis Beulan
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Mythological Greek panpipe player provides entrancing music for two shield-carrying dancers. Content: 115 kc [kHz] Super, airplane radio, and photoelectric cells. Artist: Sarkis Beulan Source: MagazineArt.org Physical Archives Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, ancient, ecstasy
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Crab swimming through the inky blackness of deep water
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Nature, sea, fish
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Moving an entire section of a town to make room for miners. also, "Depth bombing from the air" and "Where oil occurs".
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, petroleum
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Ad for Brunswick screen grid tubes. Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, trade, merchandise
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Dec 20, 2018
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H. L. Bridwell
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Low water scenes along the Ohio River. Artist: H. L. Bridwell Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, flooding
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Photograph of parabolic dish antenna, as used for radio astronomy or microwave communication. "An Amateur's All-Purpose Audio Amplifier," and "Increasing Efficiency of Close-Spaced Arrays." Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, antennas, ham
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Man working abstruse electronic device, perhaps a large transmitting tube. Radio-electronic design, production, operation. Source: MagazineArt.org Physical Archives Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, glow, vacuum, mystery
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Hunt's system of screw propellers, shown on a steam riverboat. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, marine, propulsion
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Upright boring machine. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, machine tools
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Dec 20, 2018
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Chas. Figaro
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The Ambrose Channel as measured by the Panama Canal. A single dredge load would fill four trains. Extent of the Ambrose Channel if cut through New York. The Ambrose Channel is one-third the size of the Panama Canal. Artist: Chas. Figaro Source: Steve Kirch, creator of a wonderful website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, shipping, cargo
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Gard's brick machine and transporting apparatus.
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, brick-making
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Building the outshore section of a launching way.
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, ships, shipbuilding
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Siphons. Suggestions in architecture -- group of ornamental villas and grounds. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, house, design
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Hanson's flanging machine [for making flanges on boilers etc.]. New's duplex wheel lathe.
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, heavy equipment
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Assembling a huge condenser unit for a steam-electric power plant.
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, energy, electricity
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Dec 20, 2018
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Bannister
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Cartoon parrot listening happily to radio music via a pair of headphones. Special radio frequency amplification number. Artist: Bannister Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, pet, funny, animation
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Using a car pusher in place of a switching engine in an industrial plant.
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, railroad, locomotive
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Dr. S. P. Langley's experiments in aerodynamics. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, aeroplane, flight
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The New York World newspaper -- a remarkable achievement. Printing room of the newspaper -- the great perfecting press. Park Row, New York City. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, publishing, news
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The Grant Monument to be erected at Riverside Park, New York City. Here's an ad featuring it. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, Grant's Tomb
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Electric light tower for Canal Street and Levee Now Orleans -- designed by Wm. Golding, M.E. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, illumination, streetlight
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Short's loom for weaving fabrics of any width. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, cloth, clothing
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New lasting machine. Elithorp's boot and shoe lasting machine. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, shoemaking, factory
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The Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. Laboratories, machines, metals, machine tools, practice. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, study, engineering
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Twenty inch smooth-bore gun for the Russian government. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, cannon, artillery
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Dec 14, 2018
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Howard V. Brown
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Men working in a large paper mill, or else wrangling large rolls of newsprint into a giant printing press. Artist: Howard V. Brown Source: Steve Kirch, creator of a wonderful website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, publishing, newspaper
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Dec 20, 2018
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Howard V. Brown
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Detecting and locating automobile engine troubles with the stethoscope. Artist: Howard V. Brown Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, acoustic, analysis
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Evolutions of the U. S. squadron and drill of the New York State Naval Reserve. The attack on Fisher's Island. Cannon practice at sea. The Hotchkiss rapid firing gun. Breech-loading rifle and crew. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, warship, practice
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Details of magneto for telephone calling. Design breakdown by part. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, telecom, communications
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The Lane and Bodley Company's foundry and machine works, Cincinnati, Ohio. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, tools, metals
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The Tuttle family knitter. The Forster-Firmin amalgamator and ore washer. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, clothing, mining
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The manufacture of covered buttons. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, clothing, fasteners
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Engraving precious stones. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, jewelry, printing
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Ad for Grebe Radio receivers, from the A. H. Grebe Co. of Richmond Hill, NY. Newer than screen grid. "It will pay you to take on the Grebe franchise for your district." Source: Magazine collector Steve Davis Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, reception, radio set
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Photograph of high-power, Low-C triode from EIMAC. "Short-Wave and Experimental" radio in this issue, with contents: "The 'Super-Gainer' with Crystal Filter," "The 2-Meter Problem and Its Solution," "Low-Power CW Transmitters for Newcomers," "Checking Transmitters with the Oscilloscope," and columns. Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, amateur, ham, receivers
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"American artillery-men serving a battery of heavy guns on the western front" -- during World War One. It's winter and it's loud; where are their gloves and their earplugs?
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, WW1, artillery
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Air-dielectric coaxial line, with chart showing losses as a function of frequency. "Tracking Resonant-Line Superhets," "New Three-Band Rotary Antennas," "Predistortion for amateur Phones," and "Five-Tube Economy Superheterodyne." Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, transmission line, antennas, receivers
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New coal pier at Curtis Bay, Baltimore, which handles sixty tons per minute. Also, "An alternative to Einstein" and "New sources of pulp and paper".
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, freight, shipping, energy
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Dec 20, 2018
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W. H. Andrews
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Girl is stunned to receive a Valentine's Day present from boy admirer: a crystal set for radio reception, with a note card. Artist: W. H. Andrews Source: Magazine collector Steve Davis Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio, romance, present, holiday, receiver
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Loom works of J. & W. Lyall, New York City. Five-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_River_Iron_Ship_Building_and_Engine_Worksiece positive motion loom; machine shop. Artist: Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, fabric, cloth-making
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The manufacture of soap. Dipping the soap into frames. Boiling with alkalies. Making Lye. Factory of Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati Ohio. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, cleaning, fat tallow
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Dec 15, 2018
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Howard V. Brown
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"The thought recorder" is an imagined instrument for collecting our thoughts, from electrical signals picked up by sensors on our heads. A bit ahead (um) of its time. Artist: Howard V. Brown Source: Internet Archive Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Electrical Experimenter, alpha, rhythm, EEG
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Improved automatic fire escape. Cleopatra's needle -- launch of the obelisk at Alexandria. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, history, archaeology, Egypt
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Blackman's wood-carving machine.
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, wood, carving, carve
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Professor A. E. Dolbear's new telephonic system. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, telephone, Bell, communication
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the evolution of handicraft. Images of various and diverse kinds and styles of manufacture, hand work and fabrication. Textiles, furniture, printing, dyeing, metalworking. Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Scientific American, artisan, making, building