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Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 8

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Features

Railroads in Russia

Delaware Railroad

Mississippi Valley Railroad

Exhibition of Works of Industry at Washington

Dock Stores on Submarine Foundations

Louisville and Nashville Railroad

Fair of the American Institute

The Crystal Palace

Remarkable feat of an Engine Man

The Aerial Reporter

The Japanese Expedition

To Teachers

New Night Signals

Saut Ship Canal Survey

Machine for Crimpling Iron Bars

British Association for the Advancement of Science

Improved Bit Stock

Detonating Door and Window Alarm

Gold Washer

Improved Lock

Door Fastening for Safes &c

Rosewood Trade

Improved Pendulum

Piston Head Packing

Patent Box and Axle

Colored Daguerreotypes—The Hillyotype Again

Sentences of Enginemen

Saw Mills and Saws

The Yacht America

Steam Boilers in Cities

Eating Grapes

Guano on the Lobos "Islands"—its Quantity and Worth

How to use a Coal Stove

Extension of a Patent

Lake Superior Iron

Death from Perpetual Motion

Walnuts a Family Medicine

Attic Silver Mine at Laurium

Ironton a Thrifty Place

Daguerreotypes without Mercury

Instantaneous Pictures

Matches

Paper Made from Leather Scraps

Variable Eccentric

Mysterious Cities

Mechanics

Folliculitis Commonly called “Clergyman's Sore Throat”

Ancient Mines on Lake Superior

Iron Works at Rondout

The Season to Cut Timber

Departments

To Correspondents

A Chapter of Suggestions &c