Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 31

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 31

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Features

Sloan's Patent Hydrostat for Steam Boilers

Aerial Navigation Again

Miscellaneous Items

Saw-Dust as Litter

Electricity, Curious and Beautiful Experiments

A Correct Account of the Explosion of the Blast Pipe

The Caloric Engine in Russia

On Sugar

New Clock for our City Hall

Railway Tunnels

Navy of the United States

The Ray Premiums—A Shameful Act

Invention of Chess

Weaving of Brocatelles

The Aurora Borealis and the Electric Telegraph

Explosion of a Blast Pipe

Yellow Shower

Anthracite Coal Locomotives

Self-Loading Cart

Self-Adjusting Hatch

Improved Lard Lamp

Time Indicator

Terry's Cast-Iron Pavement

New Water Wheel

Tremper's Pneumatic Governor

Self-Acting Switch

Improvement in Spinning

A Mountebank Professor Lecturing on the Ericsson

Great Increase of our Steam Marine

Events of the Week

Withdrawals from the Patent Office

How to Make Corn Bread

The New Silver Coinage

Important Patent Case—Hay and Cotton Press

The Labor Movement

A Railroad Well Watched

Monument to De Witt Clinton

Chloride of Gold and Common Salt

To Prevent Incrustations in Boilers

Dust and Consumption

Iron Tubular Safety Boat

Mechanics

Railway Curves

Price of Wool

How to Take Care of a Watch

Departments

To Correspondents