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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 43

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 43

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Features

India Rubber Armor

Defeat of the Amazons

Pacific Railroad

Improved Machinery for Cutting Screws

The Panama Railroad

Railroads of Indiana

Ship Building on the Ohio

M. Orfila on Nicotine

Oatmeal

The Telegraph Circuit—How the Ground Forms Part of it

Daguerreotypes, Machinery

Eccentric Movement of the Fixed Stars

Sawyer and Gwynne's Pressure Engine

Chinese at San Francisco

Bookbinding in the Olden Time

Value Given to Cotton in its Transformations

A New Kind of Hemp

Receipt for Making M. de Baeuvillier's Wash Compound

New Bolt Heading and Screw Cutting Machine

Baltic Steamship

Machine for Boring Conical Holes in Hubs

Incrustation in Boilers

Van Brocklin's Screw Plate

Railroad Car Ventilation—Keeping the Dust Out

New Rat Trap

Application for an Extension of Patent

Our Country

American Watered Silks

Coal the Cause of England's Greatness—The Future Greatness of the United States

Does the Moon Influence the Weather?

Motive Powers—Centrifugal Force

The Moustache

Patent Office Report

Practical Remarks on Illuminating Gas

List of Patent Claims

Patent Claims

New Edition of the Patent Laws

Post Office Stamps

Back Numbers and Volumes

Maryland Mechanics' Institute

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Necrology for the Last Half Century—Men of Science

Notice

Departments

To Correspondents