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Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 3

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Features

Miller's Monozymatic Condenser for Steam Engines

A Good Arrangement

A Mastadon in Connecticut

The Railway Carriage System in England

Death of Vanderlyn the Artist

Sulphate of Lead to be used as a Substitute for White Lead in Painting

Scythe Making in New Hampshire

New York Mechanics' Institute

To Prepare Seed to Obtain Crops without Manure

Rinds of Fruit Indigestible

Meteoric Phenomenon at Texas

To Bronze Brass Etc.

The First Locomotive in Ameaica

Wool from Wood

The Cholera

The Employment of Zinc in the Construction of Domestic Utensils, and the Influences of the same on Health

McCormick's Reaper in England

Ohio Wines

Cyanide of Potassium

The Scotch Reaping Machine

Patent Balance Gate

Improved Lock

Plow and Cultivator Combined

Machine for Forming Leaves of Springs for Carriages

Turning Irregular Forms

Descent from a Balloon

New Cut-Off

Improvement in Buckles

Copper Buoys for Steamboats

A New Composition

Improved Coal Sifter for Families

Improved Scythe Fastening

New Machine for Paring Apples &C

Enrollment Papers

The Fresnel Light and the Old System

Barrow's Rotary Steam Engine

American Superiority at the World's Fair

Those Glass Dials

Stewart's Rotary Engine

Applications of Lightning--Ingenuity of Science

Recent Foreign Inventions

Bird Killed by a Telegraph Wire

List of Patent Claims

Hemp

Girdled Trees

Curious Experiment in Wool Growing

The Koh-i-Noor

Prevention of Salivation

Back Numbers and Volumes

Patent Laws, and Guide to Inventors

To Correspondents

Patent Claims

Iceland Moss

Submarine Diving

Electro-Magnetic Clock

Steamboats of the World

Heat of the Sun

A Singular Freak of Nature

Freedom of Arabs from Leprosy