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Scientific American Magazine Vol 7 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 7, Issue 17

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Features

Frasier's Improved Excavator

New York and Erie Railroad

New York and New Haven Railroad

Vegetable Extracts and Quack Medicines

Creosote

Examination of Railroads

Coal Mines of England and America

Passages of the Atlantic Steamers from Liverpool

Steam to Ireland

The Fulton Steamship

Railroads and their Management

Steam Carriages for Common Roads

Revolving Fire-Arms—Claims of Another Inventor

Mineral Wealth of Greenland

Origin of the Turf Bogs in Ireland

Frauds in the Weight of Coal

Qualities of Timber—The Proper Time for Cutting it

Recent Foreign Inventions

Interesting Hebrew Relic

Tubular Metal Tunnel

Patent Railroad Brake

New Paddle-Wheel

Patent Hurdle Fence

House-Heating

Improvement in Casting Iron Wheels

Alta California

Improvement in Grain Drills

Circular Saws

Hospital on Ward's Island

The Aztec Children

The Gas Contract Vetoed

India-Rubber Power Accumulators

American Philosophy—Maury's Sailing Directions

Repeal of a Patent in England

Dr. Colton and the Fire Annihilator

Quinine

Minot's Ledge Lighthouse

Philadelphia Museum

Bolt Heading Machine Patent

Width of the Ohio River

Medicinal Cigars

Consumption of Tobacco and Tea in Britain

Extinguishing Fire—Air-Slacked Lime

An Interesting Patent Case—An Example to Judge Kane

The Bain Telegraph

Influence of America and Webster's Dictionary in India

January Thaws

For One Dollar

Melting of Metals

Patent Claims

New Edition of the Patent Laws

Back Numbers and Volumes

An Important Paragraph

On Boilers--No.7

The Scientific American to its Friends and the Public

Knowledge Contained in the Scientific American

Salmon Fishing

Nutmegs Indigenous to California

Restoring to Life

New Photographic Process

Black Noses

Departments

To Correspondents