Scientific American Past

Scientific American Past Following is an extract from Frank Luther Mott's "History of American magazine" in five volumes. It is the most complete work on the subject I know of.

(out of print) The author spent most of his life till his death writing these books. THE founder of the Scientific American was one of those inventive Yankees whose versatility, "handiness," and restless "projecting" life have made his type a legend. Rufus Porter was apprenticed to a shoemaker at fifteen, but cobbling was too dull for him; he liked better to play the fife for military companies on

their field days and the fiddle for dancing parties. So he ran away from his cobbling. Then he was apprenticed to a housepainter, and during the War of 1812 he painted gunboats and fifed for the Portland light infantry. Later he painted sleighs, beat the drum for the soldiers, taught drumming and wrote a manual on the subject, and then became a country schoolmaster until his wandering feet and impatient mind took him away from the schoolhouse.

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