Scientific American's online archive to 1845 goes live

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Scientific American's online archive to 1845 goes live

PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
1 November 2011

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Readers can now revisit original reports of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone and Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb. Scientific American's complete archive, back to volume 1, issue 1, is now available on nature.com. To celebrate the completion of the Scientific American archive on nature.com, the 1845-1909 archive collection will be free to all to access from 1-30 November 2011. Published since 1845, Scientific American is the longest continually published magazine in the U.S.

This collection, from Scientific American's inaugural issue in August 1845 through December 1909, completes the Scientific American archive available to institutional customers on nature.com. Users can now access over 160 years of historic medical and technological advancements, scientific discoveries and research.

Scientific American founded the first branch of the U.S. Patent Agency, in 1850, to provide technical help and legal advice to inventors. The 1845-1909 collection chronicles major inventions, including the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and the incandescent light bulb by Thomas Edison in 1879. Other highlights include coverage of New York City’s first subway in 1870, a special issue in 1899 dedicated to bicycles and automobiles, and Wilbur Wright’s completion of a three-mile flight at Kitty Hawk, South Carolina. In all, the 1845-1909 collection contains more than 75,000 articles.

Site license access to Scientific American's online archive can be purchased as four collections:
- August 1845- December 1909 (approximately 75,000 articles).
- January 1910- December 1947 (approximately 38,300 articles).
- January 1948- December 1992 (approximately 15,800 articles).
- January 1993- December 2005 (approximately 4,600 articles).

Collections contain content from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, beginning with its premier issue in December 2004/January 2005, plus all Special Issues. The articles are available as PDFs.

The Scientific American archive is an integrated part of the nature.com platform. All users can browse the archive online. The archive is searchable by keyword, author, article title or DOI for refined results. Alternatively, users can also browse by year and issue.

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http://www.nature.com/press_releases/sa_archive1845.html

[RoccoR5955]

1. Awesome.

I have been reading it for 40 or so years, since I was a kid.
I have some catching up to do. I'll want to read every one!

[RoccoR5955]

2. WOW! I am impressed

I found this poem in Issue 1 Volume 1 on page 3...
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v1/n1/pdf/scientificamerican08281845-3b.pdf
It's on the first column, called Speak Gently!
Speak Gently,

Speak gently! - It is better far
To rule by love than fear:
Speak Gently! - let not harsh words mar
The good we might do here!

Speak gently!- Love doth whisper low
The vows that true hearts bind;
And gently friendship's accents flow;
Affliction's voice is kind.

Speak gently to the little child!
Its love be sure to gain:
Teach it in accents soft and mild: -
It may not long remain
......

Speak gently, kindly to the poor,
Let no harsh tone be heard;
They have enough they must endure,
Without an unkind word!

Speak gently to the erring- know ,
They may have toil'd in vain:
Perchance unkindness made them so;
Oh, win them back again.

.....

Speak Gently! - 'tis a little thing
Dropp'd in the heart's deep well;
The good, the joy which it may bring,
Eternity shall tell.


Read the whole thing at the link.

And here I though this was just science. Who knew!

[DocMac]

3. Some of those articles should be revisited. nt

[BrendaBrick]

4. I have some originals

I bought in an antique shop several years ago. 1859 & 1860, each 8 pages and bound with string. Nice that the entire archive is being made available!

[DocMac]

5. And thaks for the post and link.

[JI7]

6. how much is it ?

[Poll_Blind]

7. Now THIS is a Friday news dump I can get behind!

:thumbsup:

PB

[Rabblevox]

8. Wonderful resource for us science nerds. This should be x-posted to science, though. TY! /nt