Scientific American Magazine
Volume 8, Issue 31You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
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