First issue of Scientific American

[keith]

Yesterday was the 165th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Scientific American. A summary of the cover story is posted here
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=improved-rail-road-cars

Since I somehow misfiled the first issue when it arrived, I am grateful that the editors were kind enough to post a pdf of the broadsheet here
www.scientificamerican.com/FirstIssueB.pdf

Unexpected among the technical articles are poetry and classified ads.

Also of interest are links to sidebars and a great historical slide show.

[Dave]

Pretty neat!