Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 26

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 26

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Features

Mastic Cement

Circular Saw without an Arbor, and Improvement in Teeth of Circular Saws

Alligator Skins

Gold Pens

Wadding and Batting Machinery

Biography of Berthollet

The Greek of Homer a Living Language

Caloric Steamship

Agassiz and Humboldt

Machinery and Tools as They are—Rolling Presses

Spots on the Sun and Magnetic Variations

Atmospheric Hammer

The Moose

Daguerreotyping

Improved Trip Hammer

Safety Steam Boiler

Heating and Ventilating Buildings

Impoved Metal Tubes

Soap Cutting Machine

Improved Cotton Press

Another Press

The Inauguration

Stuart's Naval and Mail Steamers of the United States

Events of the Week

Railroad to the Pacific

Paint for Coating Wire Work

What of the Railroad Prizes?

Miscellaneous News of the Week

Depth of the Ocean

Extension of a Patent

Riddle's Report of the Great Exhibition

Farmer's Improved Sustaining Battery

Mechanics

Ericsson on “the Ericsson;” Stirling on “Stirling”

Light for Churches and Lecture Rooms

Departments

To Our Readers

A Chapter of Suggestions, &c

To Correspondents