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Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 13

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 13

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Features

Cures for the Bite of Snakes

Fire Kindler

New Tinning Process

Gold by the Ton without Owners

Teeth

An Important Discovery

Great Improvement in the Treatment of Flax

Color of the Sun

Anastatic Printing

Magnetic Iron Ore

Clipper Ships—American and English

Perpetual Motion

The Salt of Florida

South and North Carolina Railroad

Lumber

An Old Book

Worth Trying

Circular Saw

Gold in Canada

Patent Office Building

Measurement of Logs

To Prevent Lamp Explosions

Lion Floors and Roofs

Beet Root Sugar

How to Elevate Water from Rivers

Improved Cement

Improved Windmill

Auger Handle

Carriage Spindle

Cotton Topping Machine

Felloe Machine

Give us Cheap Gas

Sea Island Cotton

New York Harbor and Dirty Streets

Safety for Ferry Boat Passengers

Award of Prizes

Public Lectures—Lost Arts

Planing and Sash Machinery

State Tariffs on Passengers

A New Steamboat Paddle Wheel

Mechanics and the Scientific American

Recent Foreign Inventions

Shawl Fringes

Improvements in Machinery Benefit the Working Man

Coining Machine

Explosion of Lime Barrels

Ventilating and Warming Large Buildings

Combustion of Coal

Mechanical Lecture

Folliculitis, Commonly Called “Clergyman's Sore Throat”

Acoustic Telegraph

Mechanics

Manufacturers and Inventors

Departments

To Correspondents