Re: Scientific American "The Bicycle Wheel" 1896

[Jasper Janssen]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:36 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

>Lots of familiar pictures of old bicycles turn out to be from articles
>in the much shorter weekly version of "Scientific American," which
>unfortunately has not been digitized.

Many of them have been, actually. They're out of copyright, so don't
appear at the SciAm site, but elsewhere. Project Gutenberg, for instance,
and the 'distributed proofreading' project for those which haven't made it
to PG yet.

Jasper

 

[[email protected]]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:38:21 +0100, Jasper Janssen
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:36 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>Lots of familiar pictures of old bicycles turn out to be from articles
>>in the much shorter weekly version of "Scientific American," which
>>unfortunately has not been digitized.
>
>Many of them have been, actually. They're out of copyright, so don't
>appear at the SciAm site, but elsewhere. Project Gutenberg, for instance,
>and the 'distributed proofreading' project for those which haven't made it
>to PG yet.
>
>Jasper

Dear Jasper,

The Gutenberg scans are usually very nice html presentations, but
they're not really the whole magazine, just the longer articles.

That is, the Gutenberg scans skip most of the shorter pieces, which is
where the bicycle stuff tends to be. It's sort of the Reader's Digest
condensed version, with the ads and tidbits stripped out.

Anyone interested can search Gutenberg's title field for scientific
american supplement (if you use quote marks or leave out supplement,
nothing will be found):

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/search

The result will be a disorderly list of the scans. They took a few
random issues per year and scanned the big articles. The unfortunate
result is that if you wade through them online, searching for bicycle,
you'll find almost nothing. Go to the microfilm page-by-page copies
that skip no issues, and all sorts of bike stuff magically appears.

Speaking of magic, it's time to show that Scientific American paid
attention to the human side of bicycling. Some trick and fancy riding
scans will appear presently in a new thread.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

 

[Jasper Janssen]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:05:55 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:38:21 +0100, Jasper Janssen
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:36 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>>Lots of familiar pictures of old bicycles turn out to be from articles
>>>in the much shorter weekly version of "Scientific American," which
>>>unfortunately has not been digitized.
>>
>>Many of them have been, actually. They're out of copyright, so don't
>>appear at the SciAm site, but elsewhere. Project Gutenberg, for instance,
>>and the 'distributed proofreading' project for those which haven't made it
>>to PG yet.

>Dear Jasper,
>
>The Gutenberg scans are usually very nice html presentations, but
>they're not really the whole magazine, just the longer articles.
>
>That is, the Gutenberg scans skip most of the shorter pieces, which is
>where the bicycle stuff tends to be. It's sort of the Reader's Digest
>condensed version, with the ads and tidbits stripped out.

That's not true for the ones currently going through DP, although it may
be true of the older PG postings.


Jasper

 

[[email protected]]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:24:54 +0100, Jasper Janssen
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:05:55 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:38:21 +0100, Jasper Janssen
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:36 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>>Lots of familiar pictures of old bicycles turn out to be from articles
>>>>in the much shorter weekly version of "Scientific American," which
>>>>unfortunately has not been digitized.
>>>
>>>Many of them have been, actually. They're out of copyright, so don't
>>>appear at the SciAm site, but elsewhere. Project Gutenberg, for instance,
>>>and the 'distributed proofreading' project for those which haven't made it
>>>to PG yet.
>
>>Dear Jasper,
>>
>>The Gutenberg scans are usually very nice html presentations, but
>>they're not really the whole magazine, just the longer articles.
>>
>>That is, the Gutenberg scans skip most of the shorter pieces, which is
>>where the bicycle stuff tends to be. It's sort of the Reader's Digest
>>condensed version, with the ads and tidbits stripped out.
>
>That's not true for the ones currently going through DP, although it may
>be true of the older PG postings.
>
>
>Jasper

Dear Jasper,

Got a link?

Cheers,

Carl Fogel