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Scientific American Magazine Vol 7 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 7, Issue 9

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Features

Electro-Magnetism as a Motive Power

Coal-Burning Locomotives

Western Railroads

Vermont Central Railroad

Accident to the Africa

Improved Carriage Wheels

Health Extraordinary

Improvement in Making Railroad Chairs

Hydraulic Pressure Engines

Improved Method of Ventilating Cars

Improved Corn Sheller

Improvement in Canal Locks

Coins in the United States—Mint at Philadelphia

Mending Cast Iron Pots

Improvement in Turbines

Method of Curing Prize Hams

Improved Planing Machine

Fire Annihilator Experiments—Tripler Hall Saved because there was no Conflagration

Scientific Memoranda

Great Telegraph Case—Uncertainties of Law

Cure for Diarrhea

Factories in Louisiana

Panama Railroad

The New Motive Power—Centrifugal Force Stock

Ague and Fever on the Mississippi

Machine for Pulling Flax

Barnhill's Premium Apple-Paring Machines

Patent Case

Honors Awarded

The Reason Why the Water of the Dead Sea is Unfitted to Support Life

Foundry and Machine Shop

Mr. McCormick's Reaper

American Growing Java Coffee

Shingle Machines

Another American Sculptor

Decisions of the Patent Office

The London Patent Journal on the Scientific American

List of Patent Claims

Hussey and McCormick's Reaper

The Wheeling Bridge

An Important Paragraph

Back Numbers and Volumes

Sending Receipts—Postage on Books

Bohemian Glass

To Mechanics

A Cheap Cottage

Philosophy

Departments

To Correspondents