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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 20

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Features

The Panama Railroad

Water Gas for Lighting and Heating

Preparation of Ditto Practised by Water Gilders

Amalgam of Gold or Silver

Improved Cultivator

Hydrogen a Metal

Silvering Plates for the Daguerreotype

Silvering Clock Faces, Barometer Plates, &c

Taciturnity of Genius

Verdict of the Coroner's Jury about the Fallen Buildings

Publishers and Editors

California Agency

Reform of the Patent Laws—Washington Republic

The Human Ear

Patent Cases

The World's Fair

Look out for Impostors

Expose of Paine's Light

Can Flax be Employed as a Substitute for Cotton

The Age of Gold

New Wingless Bird

Our Navigation

Air Locomotives again

Basaltic Columns

French Statistics

Roads

A Remington Bridge Fallen

History and Description of the U.S. Patent Office Buildings

Shanghai and the Chinese

Belts and Pulleys

Fast Sailing Ships

List of Patent Claims

English Patents to Americans

Mechanical Principles—No. 5

Patent Claims

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Hydraulics

To Dye Ivory

Smoky Chimneys and Fire-Places

Wanted

Departments

To Correspondents