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Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 2

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Features

The Railways of Great Britain

Melancholy Railroad Accident

Baldwin's New Steam Generator

Boston Locomotives

Montreal and New York Railroad

Reaping Machines

The Wreck of the Steamer Atlantic

Large Deposit of Graphite

Post Office Envelopes

Protection from the Fumes of Charcoal

A New Cure for Bronchial and Consumptive Complaints

Mines of New York

Hydrogen Gas

The Cause of the Cholera at Rochester

What is Said of the Scientific American

Lake Fisheries

A Novelty

Natural Curiosity

A Fast Propeller

Eel Fisheries in Oswego River

How Worlds are Sustained

Effect of the Earth's Rotation on Locomotion

Useful Things to Know

Discoveries in the Bottom of Harlaem Lake

Recent Foreign Inventions

Dirt--Its Value

Cider Mills

New Carpet Loom

Norcross's New Planing Machine

Self-Holding Screw Driver

The Prizes Again

Ditching Machine

Foreign Patent

Improved Fastener for Window Sash

An Exemplary Omnibus

Improvement on Violins

Machinery for Moulding Smoothing Irons

A Safety Lamp

Inventions Come and Gone

Colored Dagerreotypes

Let the Inventor's Name be Put on His Invention

Shade Trees in Cities

Hydraulic Rams

Apprentices in Cities and Country

Orders in Appeal from the Commissioner of Patents

Blatchford's Circuit Court Reports

List of Patent Claims

Form of the Earth--A New Theory

Scientific Balloon Ascent

Patent Claims

Back Numbers and Volumes

To Correspondents

Patent Laws and Guide to Inventors

Patent Mode of Preserving Butter

Mechanics

Collodion in the Treatment of Erysipelas

Fishes in the Rivers of France

Pumpkin Seed Oil

Australia

Bite of the Rattlesnake

Hooping Cough

Poisonous Chloroform

Browning Gun Barrels