Scientific American Magazine Vol 5 Issue 42

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 5, Issue 42

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Features

Whitney's Railroad to the Pacific

New Coloring Matter

Jackson's Patent Cooking Stove

First Railroad Charter in America

Bevan's Patent Arch Girder

Causes of Rain

Oxygen Gas a Cure for Cholera

The Cocoanut of Jamaica

Turkish Manners

The Route to California through Nicaragua

Death of a Great Inventor

Death of an Eminent Sculptor

Great Speed on the Utica and Schenectady Railroad

Accidents by Lightning

Telegraph and Newspaper Dinner

A Dangerous Rock

City Improvements

Sugar in France

Parker's Water Wheel

The Benefits of Coffee as an Article of Food

The Mechanical Labor on a Newspaper

Handling Molten Lead and Iron

Philips' Fire Annihilator

Ink for Lithographers

Ink that Resists the Action of Acids and Alkalies

Report of the Scientific Committee to Investigate Paie's Light

Disinfecting Compound

Improvement in Making Bricks

Glass Water Pipes

A New Wonder

Transfer Paper

New Old Planing Machine

Glasgow

Light and Heat from Water

Meanness Carried to Extremes

Great Building—Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations

Chemical Philosophy

Why Epidemics Rage at Night

List of Patent Claims

Back Volumes Scientific American

New Agents for the Scientific American

An Improved Straw Cutter

To Inventors and Mechanics

History of Propellers and Steam Navigation

Lightning and Lightning Conductors

Curious Facts in Natural History

Departments

Important Notice To Us!

To Correspondents