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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. (There is a Wikipedia article about this serial.)

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 first actively copyright-renewed issue is April 1930 (v. 142 no. 4). The first actively copyright-renewed contribution is from February 1931. (More details) The magazine is still published today on a monthly basis.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1845-1909: The Internet Archive has most issues published between 1845 and 1909.
• 1846, 1867, 1870-1871, 1877-1880, 1887: Project Gutenberg has transcriptions of a few issues from the first and second series.
• 1910: HathiTrust has volume 102, covering January-June 1910.
• 1910: HathiTrust has volume 103, covering July-December 1910.
• 1911: HathiTrust has volume 104, covering January-June 1911.
• 1911: HathiTrust has volume 105, covering July-December 1911.
• 1912: HathiTrust has volume 106, covering January-June 1912.
• 1912: HathiTrust has volume 107, covering July-December 1912.
• 1913: HathiTrust has volume 108, covering January-June 1913.
• 1913: HathiTrust has volume 109, covering July-December 1913.
• 1914: HathiTrust has volume 110, covering January-June 1914.
• 1914: HathiTrust has volume 111, covering July-December 1914.
• 1915: HathiTrust has volume 112, covering January-June 1915.
• 1915: HathiTrust has volume 113, covering July-December 1915.
• 1916: HathiTrust has volume 114, covering January-June 1916.
• 1916: HathiTrust has volume 115, covering July-December 1916.
• 1917: HathiTrust has volume 116, covering January-June 1917.
• 1917: HathiTrust has volume 117, covering July-December 1917.
• 1918: HathiTrust has volume 118, covering January-June 1918.
• 1918: HathiTrust has volume 119, covering July-December 1918.
• 1919: HathiTrust has volume 120, covering January-June 1919.
• 1919: HathiTrust has volume 121, covering July-December 1919.
• 1920: HathiTrust has volume 122, covering January-June 1920 (in weekly issues, as usual).
• 1920: HathiTrust has volume 123, covering July-December 1920 (in weekly issues, as usual).
• 1920-1921: HathiTrust has the full run of the first monthly, covering January 1920 to October 1921 in monthly issues.
• 1921: HathiTrust has volume 124, covering January-June 1921 in weekly issues.
• 1921: HathiTrust has volume 125, covering July-December 1921 in weekly issues through October, then beginning monthly issues in November.
• 1922: HathiTrust has volumes 126 and 127.
• 1923: The Internet Archive has volume 128, covering January-June 1923, scanned from microfilm.
• 1923: HathiTrust has volume 129, covering July-December 1923.
• 1924: The Internet Archive has volume 130, covering January-June 1924, scanned from microfilm.
• 1924: The Internet Archive has volume 131, covering July-December 1924, scanned from microfilm.
• 1925: The Internet Archive has volume 132, covering January-June 1925, scanned from microfilm.
• 1925: The Internet Archive has volume 133, covering July-December 1925, scanned from microfilm.
• 1926: The Internet Archive has volume 134, covering January-June 1926, scanned from microfilm.
• 1926: The Internet Archive has volume 135, covering July-December 1926, scanned from microfilm.
• 1927: The Internet Archive has volume 136, covering January-June 1927, scanned from microfilm.
• 1927: The Internet Archive has volume 137, covering July-December 1927, scanned from microfilm.
• 1928: The Internet Archive has volume 138, covering January-June 1928, scanned from microfilm.
• 1928: The Internet Archive has volume 139, covering July-December 1928, scanned from microfilm.
• 1929: The Internet Archive has volume 140, covering January-June 1929, scanned from microfilm.
• 1929: The Internet Archive has volume 141, covering July-December 1929, scanned from microfilm.

Official Site / Current Material

• The offical Scientific American web site includes news items, contents listings and back issue content (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.
• We also list a building edition, eventually known as Scientific American Building Monthly, that ran from 1885 through 1905.

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