Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 21

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 21

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Features

Artesian Wells

Coal in Massachusetts

Mortising and Boring Machine

The Turpentine Business

New Wire Suspension Bridge

How the Approach of an Earthquake may be Known

Rhubarb or Pie-Plant

Electro-Metallurgy Applied to the Ornamentation of Glass, China, &c

War between the Courts and Corporation

Anthracite and Welsh Coal

Woodcroft, Inventor of the Propeller

Impurity of Well Water

Lectures on Chemistry.—No. 5

Patent Office Reports—A New Law

Suffering in Maderia

Caloric

An Old Bible: its Vicissitudes and Wanderings

Locomotive Invention—White's Truck

Spot on the Sun

How to Calculate the Power of Parker's Water Wheel

Machinery and Tools as they are—Screws

Improved Rigging Screw

Envelope Stamp

Improved Melodeon

Plastering Machine

Self-Acting Hot Air Blast

Improved Clover Thresher

Improved Roofing

Inventor's Claims

Improved Railroad Car Seat

Railroad Accidents—Means of Prevention

New York Crystal Palace

Mechanics, Millers, and Long Hours

Inventors Secure your Inventions

Telegraph to the Pacific

To Manufacturers and Dealers in Machinery

A Specimen Business Letter

List of Patent Claims

Riddle's Report of the Great Exhibition

Advertisements

Wells, Pumps, &c

On the Causes of Rain and the Possibility of Modifying them by Art

Blowing up a Huge Chimney

Manufacturers and Inventors

Departments

A Chapter of Suggestions, &c

To Correspondents

Literary Notices