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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 32

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 32

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Features

Progress of the Pennsylvania Railroad

Lake Shore Railroad

Paine's Light—the Patent

Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad

Foreign Correspondence

Singular Old Coin

Pacific Railway

Tea Seed

Novel Application of Mechanics

Suspension Bridges

Daguerreotyping the Moon

Spontaneous Combustion—Fortunate Escape

Immense Engineering Works

Deficiency of Weight in Georgia Cotton

Steam Versus Stame

Ventilation

Page's Electro-Magnetic Locomotive

The Roc's Eggs

Influence of Carbonate and Phosphate of Lime upon Grains

Extraordinary Case—Trial of Manslaughter in Treating for Burning

Whitewashing

Improvement in Carriage Wheel Hubs

Hewet's Patent Wrench

Improvement in Hanging Saws in Saw Mills

Ossian E. Dodge

To Prepare Canvas for Oil Painting

To Render Canvas Water-Proof

The Lever—Its Principles

Improved Harvesting Machines

The London Patent Cab

Improved Stave Machine

Substitute for the Crank

Knowledge is Democratic

New York Gas Lights

Shortest Passage Ever Made across the Atlantic

Young Children in Factories

Painting

Quarrels of our Countrymen in London

Patent Cases

Atlantic Mail Station on the West of Ireland

Practical Remarks on Illuminating Gas

American Shawls

List of Patent Claims

Notice to Subscribers of Duggan's Work on Bridges

Patent Claims

New Edition of the Patent Laws

Scientific Memoranda

Hydraulics

Steamship Atlantic Tribute to American Nautical Skill

Durability of Wood

Departments

Notice to Correspondents

To Correspondents