Scientific American Magazine Vol 4 Issue 5

Scientific American MagazineOctober 1848

Volume 4, Issue 5

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Features

Alone

There is Good in the World

Patch's Propeller

Riches and Poverty

Flannel

Hints to Wives

Baltimore and Ohio Railways

Preventive Railway Collisions

New York and Boston Railroad

Railway Accidents

Opposition of Improvements

The Fair of the American Institute

No. 2 Gold Pens

M. Leverrier's Planet

New Use for Caster Oil

The Artesian Well at New Haven

Vancouver's Island and the Hudson's Bay Company

Formation of Hail

The Electric Telegraph

The Lakes

The Benefit of the Swallow

Ivory

Honesty and Restitution in a Cod Fish

How Far the Provision of Food is Due to the Labor of Man

Improved Locomotives

Thermometer and Gravitating Clock

Improvement in Railroad Switches

List of Patents

Planing Rived Staves

Female Medical Instruction

Ballooning

Liberia Coffee

The Scientific American

Changes Produced by Railroads

The Great Fair

Associations of Capital and Labor

Suspension in the Coal Trade

Something for All

Charcoal

Turning of Irregular Forms

Influence of Sounds on the Elephant and Lion

Adulteration of Bread

Singular Insanity in Paris

Patent Laws.--Selling Before the Issue of a Patent

Lead Pipes and Water

Patent Office Business

Reply to J. K. Eldridge

Increase of American Exports

To Stew Pumpkins

How to Make Leeches Bite

New Chemical Law

The Best Mechanical Paper

History of the Rotary Engine

Mock Cream

Fire Cements

Departments

To Correspondents