The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-12-31
PROSPECTUS
OF TIE
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN,
THE BEST MECHANICAL PAPER IN TIL
WORLD.
SEvENTEENTII YEAR.
VOLUME NI.-NEW SERIES.

A new volume Of this widely circulated pa
per conin'nces on the 9TH of January Every
number contains sixteen pages of useful insor
nation, and from FIVE to ten original en- craving,
OF new inventions and discoveries all of which
are prepared expressly for its columns
The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN is devoted TO the
lnterests OF popular Science, the Mechanic
Arts, Manufactures, Inventions, Agriculture
Commerce and the Industrial Pursuits gener
ally. and is valuable and instructive not only
IN the " orl shop and Mandatory, but also in
the Household, the Library and the Reading.
Room.
The ScIENTFic AMERICAN has the reputation
at home and abroad, of being the best weekly
Puoiicatlon devoted to mechanical and indus.
trial pursuits, now published and the publish.
ers are determined to keep up the reputation
they have earned during the sirtecn gears they
have been connected with its publication.
To The Mechanic and Manufacturer!
No PERSON engaged in any OF The mechanical
pursuits should think of doing without the Sci
ent!fc american. 1t costs but four cents per
Week every number contains from six 10 ten
enSravngs OF new machines and inventions
winch cannot be ioudd in any other pubca.
ton. tits an csta blished rule of the publish.
ers to insert none but original engravings, an d
those of the first class in the art, drawn and
engraved by experienced persons under their
own supervision
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to every inventor, rs it not only contains Illus
frated descriptions of nearly all the best invcn-
tons, as they come out, but each number con
t ms an official list of the claims of all the Pat
en;s Issued from the United States Patent Office
during the week previous thus giving a cor
rect history OF the progress of inventions in
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tuning to tile interests of millwrights and mill
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csted viii be found discussed in the Scientific
AmeTicdn /; most of the improvements in agri-
cultural implements being illustrated in It's col
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