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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 16

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 16

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Features

Hutchinson's Machinery for Manufacturing Barrels

New York and New Haven Railroad

First Australian Railway

Ether

Stephenson in Egypt

Great Railroad Tunnel

Steam Communication with China

A Learned Journeyman Printer

The Gas Outrage

The Construction of Roads

Brown's Tobacco Press

Cotton and Cotton Culture in China

A Steam Navy

Phenomenon of Vision

Mines of Wales

Corrosive Effects of Cochituate Water upon Lead Pipes

Mr. Paine's Light

Wilson's Sewing Machine

A Valuable Invention in Case of Fire

New Mashing Apparatus

Bill for Reforming the Patent Laws

New Splice Coupling for Railroad Check Rope

The Extraction of Essence of Turpentine by Steam

Catalyzing Hydrogen Gas

Improvements in Electro Magnets

To our Patrons

Preparation of Flax Cotton

Hawking Revived

The Year that is Past

Reform of the Patent Laws

Incrustation of Boilers

Mechanical Principles—No. 1

Potato Rot

List of Patent Claims

Standing Notice to Subscribers

Hydrostatics

No Coal in California

Mechanics

The Best Mechanical Paper

Fashionable Diseases

Bisulphate of Lime

Petrifying Fountain

Metal Reduction

Departments

To Correspondents