Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 8

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Features

Stew Art's Rotary Steam Engine

The Principle on which Plants are Propagated by Cuttings

Wilder's Leeway Indicator

The Compound Railroad Iron

The Railway Monarch's Star again in the Ascendant

An Impostor Inventor

Fair of the American Institute

The Largest Merchant Ship in the World

Esquimaux Theory of the Heavenly Bodies

Peter Deshong

A Yankee

Booth's Patent for the Reduction of Gold

The Voltaic Battery—Precipitation of Metals

NUMBER v—(Continued.)

Foreign Correspondence

Responsibility of Captains, Overseers, &c

New Locomotive

Rotary Steam Engine

Improvement in Apparatus for Drying Cloth in Printworks

Improvement in Quilted Cloth

Sea Sickness

The Iron Twin Steamer—An Old Concern

Useful Hints

Improved Lathe Chuck

An Important Paragraph

Fall of a Suspension Bridge

Improved Saw

Captain Taggart's Propeller Balloon

Machinery for Turning Irregular Forms

The American Institute

Jenny Lind's Concerts at Tripler Hall

Commissioner of Patents' Report

Shot on Iron Ships—A New Protective

Extent and Population of London

Our Manufactures

List of Patent Claims

Tobacco Culture

Patent Claims

Scientific Memoranda

Some Pecuilar Properties of Water and Air

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Clark's Patent Auger

Departments

To Correspondents