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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 21

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 21

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Features

Machinery for Obtaining Power by the Force of Waves and Tides

A Fine Black Varnish for Coaches and Iron Work

Railroad Accident

Cumberland Valley Railroad

American Railroad Iron

A Varnish to Imitate the Chinese

Iodine as an Element of Animal and Vegetable Substances

Receipt for Chapped Hands

The Wheeling Bridge Case

Chain Belts

Celestial Phenomena

The Architect of the Patent Office

American Celestial Phenomena

Linen—The New Discovery

Explosions of Steam Boilers—Their Causes and Remedies

An American Steamer on Lake Nicaragua

Another Perpetual Motion

Manufacturing in Nashville

Improvements in Machinery for Making Cotton Batting

New Way to Tin Iron

Anthracite Glass

Improvement in Attaching the Pole to Axle of Wagons and Carriages

New Electro-Chemical Telegraph

Improvement in Endless R. R. Horse Power

Our Ocean Steamships

Railroads of the United States

Rationale of the Composition of Water

List of Patent Claims

The Moisture of Rooms

Mechanical Principles

Standing Notice to Subscribers

Durability of Vellum

Bituminous Shale

The Lead Mines of Iowa

Crystalization

Stereoscopes

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers