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November 3, 2011 08:11 pm PDT

In the first issue of Scientific American: Centrifuges and levitating haystacks

Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in America, began life on August 28, 1845 as a 4-page, black and white newsletter. There were only a couple of illustrations. The cover model was one of the vastly improved railroad cars of the age, which could seat 60-80 passengers, "run with a steadiness hardly equalled by [...]


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