Scientific American Magazine Vol 5 Issue 49

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 5, Issue 49

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Features

Milk of Almonds for the Complexion

Portland and Vicksburg Railroad

Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad

Improved Grain Cleaning Machine

Fig Pie

Violet Powder

To Make Good Brown Bread

The Introduction of Carrige Making in Newark, New Jersey

Provisions for Field Hands

Substitute for Blowing Rocks

The Calhoun Statue

A Cave Discovered at Sharon

Col Hamilton's Mode of Cultivating Cotton

Valuable Invention

Foreign Correspondence

Origin of the Words Blanket, Worsted, Kerseymere and Linsey Woolsey

Water Versus Steam Power

The Expected Great Comet

Hooped Ships

Electro Magnetism as a Motive Power

Larkin's Improvement in Augur Handles

Van Anden's Patent Rail Chair

Improved Lathe Machine

Improvement in the Flax Manufacture

Terra Cotta

Gas from Water

Balloon Railway

A Self-Acting Saw Mill

Ohio State Fair

Impostor—Look Out

Cooking by Gas

Water Telescope

Experiments in Aerostation

The Hydrogen Gas Light

Restoring and Preserving the Sight

Large Steam Hammers

More About the Electric Water Light

Meteoric Shower

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Coal Formations

Lake Superior Copper

The Industrial Exhibition of 1850

List of Patent Claims

Patent Claims

Back Volumes Scientific American

Important Notice to Us

History of Propeller and Steam Navigation

Spirits of Turpentine a Cure for Poison

New Prospectus of The Scientific American

Experiments with Metals

Egyptian Superstitions

Flemish Lace Makers and Lace Making

Departments

To Subscribers

To All Whom It May Concern

Erratum

To Correspondents