Scientific American Magazine Vol 8 Issue 38

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 8, Issue 38

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Features

A Musical Peddling Dentist

Hair Tonic

Hair Waters

Cherries without Stones

Improvement in Bedsteads

Comparative Health of Cities

Changes in the Patent Office

Improvements in Gun Locks

Electro Magnetic Steam Boiler Alarm

Fall of Catfish

A New Mode of Ship Ventilation

Improvement in Mills for Sawing

Apple Trees Killed with Potash

The New Light and New Motive Power

Sash Fastener

Atmospheric Telegraph

The Aztec Children

The Caloric Ship—Letter from Capt. Ericsson

The Secret of New York Enterprize

The Dahlia

Southern Granite and Slate

A Monster Steam Hammer

English Grammar

New Lifting and Force Pump

New Car Wheel

An Improvement in the Construction of Cars for Turning Curves

Improvement in Temples for Looms

Railroad Signals

Events of the Week

The Progress of Inventions and Inventors

The New York Crystal Palace

Leather and Its Interests

Experiments upon the Use or Salt-water in Steam Boilers

U.S. Ship Princeton

Recent Foreign Inventions

Success of Mr. Samuelson's Digging Machine

Important Patent Case

Vegetable Wax

Mechanics

Olive Oil

On the Temperature of Man within the Tropics

Swaim's Magnetomer

Departments

A Chapter of Suggestions, &C

To Correspondents