Scientific American Supplement, 1909. Volume LXIII. Nos. 1748-1773. New York: Munn & Co., Inc, 1909. First Edition. [11872]
Full blue cloth, binding tight with some soil. 16 x 11 1/2 inches, ex college library with standard markups including white labels on the binding and a perforated stamp on the main title page. 416 pages with index; many b/w photos; a few short cello tape repairs. We find one page with an unrepaired horizontal tear. Good. Hardcover.
July 3, 1909 - December 25, 1909. Hundreds of illustrated scientific articles from the early days of the railroad, airplane, ships, machinery, electricity, the wireless, &c.
This volume has an article by Dr. Max Dieckmann on "The Problem of Tele-Vision." Also an illustrated article on "The Costliest Railroad in America," that being the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad, stretching "from the great bituminous coal fields of southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky to the cotton mill district in South Carolina."
