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Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 15

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 15

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Features

Chloride of Sodium (Common Salt) in Intermittent Fever

Gold at the Mint

Crayons

Tunnel through the Alleghanies

Court Plaster

The Poetry of Mechanism

First Locomotive West of the Mississippi

Lectures on Chemistry.—No. 2

[Reported expressly for the Scientific American]

The New Crystal Palace

The First Prize

Cast-Iron Pavements &C

The Sphinx

Speaking through Tubes

Deterioration of Soils—Agricultural Report of Ohio

Spike-Making Machine

Coupling Shafts and Axles

Improved Straw Cutter

Improved Clover Thresher

Plastering Machine

Counterfeit Coin Detector

Forcing Down Lids of Boxes

Register for Clocks

Steam Engines

Intelligent Mechanics

Critical Dissertation on Steam, Air, and Gas Engines

Stitching Shoes by Machinery

The Ether Controversy—Dangerous Legislation

Extension of a Patent

Recent Foreign Inventions

The Patent Office

The Fire Annihilator a Fire Propagator

Improvement in the Steam Engine

American Fashion and Birmingham Buttons

A Patentee and the Bank of England

Departments

To Subscribers

To Correspondents

A Chapter of Suggestions, &C