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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 28

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 28

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Features

Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad

A Mountain of Magnesia in California

Curious Species of Barter

Lerow and Blodgett's Sewing Machine

Receipt for Burns

Slate

Sulphur

Tripoli

Foreign Correspondence

American Locust, Cicada Septemdecim

Soapstone

A Lot of Inventions

Iron Masted Vessels

Great Discovery in Illuminating and Motive Power

Fulton in France

Incrustations in Steam Boilers

A Burning Rock in New South Wales

Letters of Various European Countries

Claussen's Improvements in the Preparation and Bleaching of Flax

Improvements in Operating the Picker Staff of Looms

American Enterprise Honored in England

Improved Glue Pot for Cabinet Makers and Joiners

Petition for the Extension of Patents

Improvement in Paper Pulp Strainers

Premium for a Printing Press

Management of the Patent Office, and Mr. Burke

Appendix to the Washington Astronomical Observations of 1846

Steamboat Betting

Artificial Tooth Manufacturing

Fever and Cancer Cured—Great Discoveries

Machinery and Labor

American Inventions and Benjamin Cheverton

Fossil Tree in Coal Rocks

Letter from Mr. Paine

List of Patent Claims

Petition against Blood-Letting

Electro-Magnetic Experiments

Scientific Memoranda

Depilatory Powder and Manipulating the Eyes

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Geographical Discovery

Western Texas

Departments

To Correspondents