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Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 5

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Features

Steam on the Rio de la Plata

Pneumatic Railroad

Antidote for Corrosive Sublimate

Serious Railroad Accident

Great Railroad Tunnel

French Portable Steam Engine

Tooth Powder

Weaving Wire Lace

Adjustment of Compasses in Iron Vessels

Liebig on the Fermentation of Wine and Beer

Appropriation of American Discoveries by the English Admiralty

Fair of the American Institute

Perils of Ballooning

Sanatory Congress in Brussells

British Association for the Advancement of Science

Timber for Carriages—Proper Time to Cut It

Grayson's Odometer

Wilson's New Propeller

Improved Oil Box for Locomotives

Packing of Piston Heads

Ox Bow Fastener

Improved Table

New Invention

The Widow of Henry Bell

The Plant Fly Trap

Power Machines a Benefit to Operatives

Beardslee's Planing Machine

Burning Smoke

Our Atlantic Steamships

Report on Lighthouses

Heat of the Body

Corrosion of Metals in Water

Dangerous Feat

Back Numbers and Volumes

Patent Claims

Cheap Postage—Important to Subscribers

Patent Laws and Guide to Inventors

The Great Storm in August

Gastric Juice

Thomson's Artesian Well Borer

A Man in the Air

Camphor an Antidote for Strychnine

Mechanics

Mineral and Nitrogenized Manures

Departments

To Correspondents