THE 



WESTERN REVIEW OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 



A RKCORD OF PROGRESS IN 



Science, Mechanic Arts and Ao^riculture. 



VOL. 1. FEBRUARY, 1877. NO. 1. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



The increasing taste for scientific study which nowadays manifests itself 

 among all classeg of readers, and the evident impossibility of any consider- 

 able number of them being able to spare the time necessary to examine 

 the scores of journals and magazines devoted to its special branches and 

 subjects, have given rise to the belief that a periodical consisting of a care- 

 ful resume of the most important inventions, discoveries and treatises of 

 eminent, practical workers in the various departments of science and in- 

 dustry would be a convenience and of service to such persons, and might 

 meet with sufficient encouragement to make it a success. 



With this idea in view the first number of "The Western Review op 

 Science and Industry" is offered to the public, and it is hoped that the 

 foundation is thus laid for a publication which will long continue the expo- 

 nent of the progress of j)ractical knowledge and industry for this portion 

 of the country. 



As announced in our prospectus, this periodical will have for its object 

 the popularizing of science, and will be devoted to the interests of the ar- 

 tisan, the mechanic, the farmer and the household, as well as of the more 

 scientific reader. Very little sj^ace will be given to editorial speculations, 

 or to advocating the theories of any man or class of writers, but it will 

 rather be our aim to fill the pages of the "RsviEVf " with useful and prac- 

 tical information upon the subjects of mechanics and engineering, applied 



