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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 41

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 41

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Features

A False Island

Tunnel through the Green Mountains

Profits of Railroads

Coal Fields of Pennsylvania

Ison's Improvements in Machinery for Making Spikes and Nails

Special Correspondence of the Scientific American

Electro-Magnetism as a Moving Power

Custom House Scrutiny in Liverpool

Hibbard's Patent Process of Tanning

Improved Railroad Brake

Improvement in Shuttles

Currents of the Ocean—Pendulum Experiments

Libbey's Leather Car for raising Hides from Vats

Great Improvement in the Piano Forte—Piano, Flute, and Viol all Combined

Roofing the Britannia Tubular Bridge

Improved Machine for Punching Leather Hose, Harness, & c

New Rate of Postage—Important Information for the Subscribers of the Scientific American

Improved Oil Cup

Patent Case—Carpet Loom

Cast Iron Buildings—Crystal Palace

The Recognition of Genius and the Industrial Principle

Errors in Printing

Pennsylvania Chrome Mines

Practical Remarks on Illuminating Gas

List of Patent Claims

Post Office Stamps

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Floating of Rafts on Rivers

Hydraulics

Horse Shoeing

St. Domingo Antiquities

Receipts for Cholera

A New Remedy for the Scurvy

Departments

To Correspondents