Scientific American Archives are free online for a month

[Melrapuo]

Scientific American's online archive to 1845 goes live (http://www.nature.com/press_releases/sa_archive1845.html)

Pretty cool idea. There's so many articles I don't even know what to search for first.

[StanUpshaw]

Scientific American's online archive to 1845 goes live (http://www.nature.com/press_releases/sa_archive1845.html)

Pretty cool idea. There's so many articles I don't even know what to search for first.

See what studies come up for "negro".

[Snacks]

Scientific American's online archive to 1845 goes live (http://www.nature.com/press_releases/sa_archive1845.html)

Pretty cool idea. There's so many articles I don't even know what to search for first.

I went right to the 1st article in 1845 and its amazing how much work must have went into this 165 + years ago! Definitely worth a look to see the evolution of publishing!

[Crash]

I went right to the 1st article in 1845 and its amazing how much work must have went into this 165 + years ago! Definitely worth a look to see the evolution of publishing!

From that edition:

VARIETY
A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican having been bitten by a mad dog, was cured by drinking a concoction of the bark of the common black ash.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure science and the reporting chops of Scientific American have come a long way in 165 years.

[bohicanator]

Gotta say here, Google Scholar is mighty impressive as well, It seems counter-intuitive to spend a lot of time on 1880's Egyptology, but those fuckers did their work. Take a look at the work of Elbert Eli Farman -he was a trade Ambassador under U.S. Grant, his non-fiction journals were -every bit- as exciting as any Indiana Jones script. I'm the only one who's said that, but that don't make it any less truthful. There are some damned fine photos as well. Don;t even get me started about the King of the Dervished who rode his horse across the prostrate bodies of his acolytes under the theory that Allah would keep them from harm. (There is a photo)

Don't know how it will display, but the dudes laying down in white, are about to be trampled.

<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border:0px" src="http://books.google.com/books?id=6KocAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA58-IA1&output=embed" width=500 height=500></iframe>

http://books.google.com/books/about/Egypt_and_its_betrayal.html?id=6KocAAAAMAAJ

James Henry Breasted, is another Author who is pretty timeless wrt to what he knew and when he knew it. (He does European History well)

It's all freee baby. Go hog wild, -tell 'em Bo sent you.

Technology has a way of leap-frogging when you aren't looking. Remember how bad translation services used to suck? Shit now it's practically automated.

The future is pretty fucking awesome, but still no flying cars or Jetpacks.