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Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 14

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Features

California Statistics

Receipt for Joining Glass

Iron Pavements

Starch from Horse Chestnut and Arrow Root

Bleeding from the Nose

Inter Oceanic Canal

The Coco-anut Tree

Mackerel Fishing

Lectures on Chemistry

New Self-Adjusting Carriage Springs

Railroad Accident

Anthracite Coal for Locomotives

Railroads in Canada

Performing Somersets from a Balloon

Anastatic Printing

Air Heating Pipes

Ancient and Modern Cities

Railroad Dust and Cinders

Chickering's a Pianoforte Manufactory

Agriculture in California

Burns and Spontaneous Combustion

Cure for the Croup

Improved Straw Cutter

Rotary Engine

Safety Steam Boiler

Threshing Machines

Improved Locomotive Spark Arrester

New Cut-off Gear

Falling Houses Again

Ammonia

A Large and Small Wheel

Award of Prizes

Critical Dissertation on Steam, Hot Air, and Gas Engines

Hydraulic Pumps

Packing Apples

Lecturing Noblemen

The Cheap Postage Law

Action against the New Steamboat Law

Reform of the Patent Laws—Patent Office and Patent Funds

Fossil Remains

Safety Fluid Lamp—Chemical Cause of Explosions

Gum Elastic

Mechanics

Manufacturers and Inventors

Departments

All Gone, All Gone

To Correspondents

A Chapter of Suggestions, &C