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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 48

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 48

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Features

Novel Life-Preserver for Railroads

Ohio and Indiana Railroad

For the Scientific American

Protecting River Banks

Bronson's Improvements in Sawing Frames

Diamond Slab

The Secret of Taming Birds

Extension of Steam between Glasgow and New-York

Chemical Freezing Agents

Electricity

Facts, on Dits, and Matters Connected with the Crystal Palace

Special Correspondence or the Scientific American

The Inventor of Railways

The Telegraph in Europe

Hindoo Mechanics and Artizans

Enthusiasm for Science

New Fire Alarm

New Ballast for Ships

Improved Fastening for Bedsteads

Peraot's Machine for Cutting Screw Blanks

The Centrifugal Force Philosophers and the New Motive Power

A New Railway Brake

Improvement in Grist Mills

Improvement in Sugar Apparatus

Russell's Improvement in Chimney Caps

Cloth Dressing Machine

Short Conversations on Mechanics—No. 2

Bartlett's Elements of Natural Philosophy—Mechanics

The Alleged New Motive Power

Braithwaite's Retrospect Practical Medicine and Surgery

American and London Hats

Mock Auctions and Inventions

Patent Case

American Wines

The Animal Kingdom

List of Patent Claims

New Edition of the Patent Laws

Back Numbers and Volumes

The Drying up of the Sea

Hydraulics

Extraordinary Pertrification and other Curiosities

Departments

To Correspondents