Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 14

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Features

Newman's Patent Excavating Machinery

Stopping Trains by Electricity

Tehuantepec Survey

Shell Banks in Ohio

Rio Grande Survey

Lewistown Suspension Bridge

Currents of the Ocean

Bermuda Corals

Improvement for Working Butter

Probable Detention of Two Americans in Paraguay

Bee Hives

Gilding Solution

Wheeling Bridge Case

Discovery of Another Mammoth Cave in Indiana

Forms of Matter

Chemistry of Madder

The Voltaic Battery—Electrotype

Beautiful Varnish

Poisoned by Eating a Worm

Improvements in Printing

Prizes

Novel Boiler Feeder

Improvements in Gate Hinges

Newly Invented Gas Light—New Source of Heat and Motive Power

The Planet Saturn

Stereotyping

Copying Electric Telegraph

City Railroads

Electric Lights Again

Growth of the Human Nails

Form of the Least Resistance

Mechanical Drawing

Testing Iron Girders

Great Exhibition—English Patent Laws

The Importance of Correct Patent Specifications

Broom Machinery

Change in the Post-Office

Articles from Jerusalem to the World's Fair

Pulverized Wood for Cattle

The Steam Engine

List of Patent Claims

Standing Notice to Subscribers

To Render Cloth Incombustible

New Explosive Substance

Improvements in the Manufacture of Flax in Ireland

Poison Sausages

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Hydrostatics

To Take a Plaster of Paris Cast from a Living Face

Departments

To Correspondents