Scientific American

{{header | title     = Scientific American | author    = | translator = | section   = | previous  = | next      = | portal = Periodicals | shortcut = SA | commonscat = Scientific American | wikipedia = Scientific American | notes     = a popular-science magazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. It brings articles about new and innovative research to the amateur and lay audience.

Publication history
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 * First series in 14 volumes published weekly from August 28, 1845 until June 25, 1859.
 * Second series began on July 2, 1859 as a weekly and continued thus until 1921 when it merged with Scientific American Monthly, and continued as a monthly from November 1921 until the present. Volume number 128 was used twice.  Most recently volume 299 has been issued in the second half of 2008.
 * Scientific American Supplement was a monthly published in 88 volumes between 1876 and 1919.
 * Scientific American Monthly superseded the supplement, and was published in four volumes until October 1921.
 * Scientific American Building Monthly began in November 1885, was renamed the Scientific American. Architects and Builders Edition the following month, and continued with that name until December 1901, and became Scientific American. Building Edition until June 1905, after a total of 39 volumes. In July 1905 it was superseded by American Homes and Gardens which lasted until September 1915, when it merged with House & Garden.  That publication has announced that the December 2007 issue will be its last.
 * A monthly export edition was produced with separate paging with América cientifica between January 1895 and February 1903.

First series

 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2
 * Volume 3
 * Volume 4
 * Volume 5
 * Volume 6
 * Volume 7
 * Volume 8
 * Volume 9
 * Volume 10
 * Volume 11
 * Volume 12
 * Volume 13
 * Volume 14
 * The Death of Henry L. Ellsworth
 * The Rise, Progress and Influence of the "Scientific American"
 * Commissioner Holt appointed Postmaster General
 * Reminiscences of Sewing Machine Inventors
 * The Patent Office Building
 * Tribute of Respect to the New Postmaster General
 * Machinery and Labor
 * What Next? -- Flying

Second series

 * Volume 2
 * Hop frames
 * Magnetized wheels of locomotives
 * Volume 17
 * No. 26, December 28, 1867
 * Volume 22
 * No. 1, January 1, 1870
 * Volume 24
 * No. 12, March 18, 1871
 * Volume 36
 * No. 8, February 24, 1877
 * Volume 39
 * No. 6, August 10, 1878
 * No. 24, December 14, 1878
 * Volume 40
 * No. 13, March 29, 1879
 * Volume 43
 * No. 1, July 3, 1880
 * No. 25, December 18, 1880


 * Rufus Porter, November 08, 1884

Supplements

 * Hathitrust volumes here.


 * No. 275, April 9, 1881
 * No. 286, June 25, 1881
 * No. 288, July 9, 1881
 * No. 299, September 24, 1881
 * No. 312, December 24, 1881
 * No. 324, March 18, 1882
 * No. 360, November 25, 1882
 * No. 363, December 16, 1882
 * No. 365, December 30, 1882
 * No. 385, May 19, 1883
 * No. 388, June 9, 1883
 * No. 401, September 8, 1883
 * No. 415, December 15, 1883
 * No. 430, March 29, 1884
 * No. 433, April 19, 1884
 * No. 446, July 19, 1884
 * No. 455, September 20, 1884
 * No. 458, October 11, 1884
 * No. 460, October 25, 1884
 * No. 470, January 3, 1885
 * No. 488, May 9, 1885
 * No. 492, June 6, 1885
 * No. 497, July 11, 1885
 * No. 520, December 19, 1885
 * No. 531, March 6, 1886
 * No. 561, October 2, 1886
 * No. 586, March 26, 1887
 * No. 598, June 18, 1887
 * No. 601, July 9, 1887
 * No. 611, September 17, 1887
 * No. 623, December 10, 1887
 * No. 643, April 28, 1888
 * No. 647, May 26, 1888
 * No. 648, June 2, 1888
 * No. 717, September 28, 1889
 * No. 794, March 21, 1891
 * No. 795, March 28, 1891
 * No. 799, April 25, 1891
 * No. 810, July 11, 1891
 * No. 819, September 12, 1891
 * No. 821, September 26, 1891
 * No. 832, December 12, 1891
 * No. 841, February 13, 1892
 * No. 1082, September 26, 1896
 * No. 1157, March 5, 1898