Scientific American Magazine Vol 5 Issue 25

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 5, Issue 25

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Features

Sharps' Breech-Loading Patent Rifle—Fig 1

Warning for Apothecaries

Colder Yet

Coal in Locomotive Engines

Simple Cure for Croup

Extreme Cold

Indiana Railroads

Butter

Behind the Age

A Great Railroad Project

Great Discovery

Early Closing of Dry Good Stores

Carbon as Food for Plants

A Righteous Verdict

U.S. Astronomical Mission

Works on Science and Art

Lectures on the Mysterious Knockings at Rochester

The Force of Imagination

Good Investment

Explosion of a Locomotive

Where is the Wilderness?

Correspondence of the Scientific American

Professional Beggars

Failure of Iron Steamboats

A Great Suspension Bridge

The Treatment of Piles on Mechanical Principles and by Self-Management

Agricultural Discovery

Newly Discovered Properties of Heat in Combination with Steam

Brown's Eccentric Progressive Power Press

Remmington's Bridge

New Plan of Tin Roofing

Improvement in Hydrants

Strength or Gutta Percha Tubing

New Lantern

How to Puzzle the Rogues

The Woodworth Patent

Novel Plan for Building Houses

A New Building Material

The Steamboat Challenge

New Window Fastener

To Our Half-Yearly Subscribers

Invention, Civilization and Pauperism

Future Discoveries—What Science Has Yet to Accomplish

World's Convention of Industry in America

List of Patent Claims

New Steamships

Valentines

A Petrified Body

Burns and Scalds

History of Propellers and Steam Navigation

Duration of Life

Polar Origin of the Tides

Tanning—Practical Remarks

Curious Effect of the Electric Light

Results of Some Experiments on the Explosion of Burning Fluids

Departments

To Correspondents