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Scientific American Magazine Vol 7 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 7, Issue 20

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Features

Electric Telegraph in Hospitals

Machine for Measuring the Flow of Water

Extraordinary Case of Mirage

Counterfeit Gold Coin

City Railroads

What Railroads Do

Steam Carriages on Common Roads--The Last of the Controversy

Manufacturing in Macon, Ga

Resuscitation of Frozen Fish

New Magnetic Indicator

Flax Cotton

American Genius

The Sinking of Ice

Keeping Cattle Warm

Early Days of Steam Navigation

Recent Foreign Inventions

Superior Sand Paper

Alarm for Tills and Drawers

New Clock Telegraph

Safety Whiffletree

American Axes in Canada

Petition for Extension of Patent

The Rappings

Prizes for Inventions

Extension of the Woodworth Patent

Photography and Gutta Percha

Curiosities of Water—Explosions of Steam Boilers

Felt Cloth Carpets

Burning of a Steamship

The Cold Weather

Measures of Length

Commercial Statistics of England

The Opium Trade

Great International Patent Cases

The Great Forrest Case

List of Patent Claims

New Arrangement

An Important Paragraph

Back Numbers and Volumes

Inventors

Vegetable Parasites in Sugar

On Boilers--No. 10

Singular Cause of Death

Traction

Singular Effects of Disease of the Brain

The Coal Trade of Pennsylvania

Departments

To Correspondents