Scientific American Magazine Vol 9 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 9, Issue 20

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Features

Cinder Basket

Bushnell's Self-Feeding Hand Drill

Tobacco at the North

Incrustations of Boilers

Import of Sperm and Whale Oil

A Ship Illuminated by Gas

Australian Enterprize

Hay Meal

The Bull-Bush Caterpillar of New Zealand

Imponderable Agents.—No. 7

[Second Series]

Quartz Crusher Experiments

Illumination—Gas Light

Why do Teeth Decay

List of Patent Claims

Awards of our Prizes

Cancer Cured

Old Coins

Californian Mastodon

Improvement in Railroad Tracks

Improved Turn-Table

Setting Carriage Axles

Governor for Marine Engines

Improvement in Devices for Rail Cars

Fastening Shoemakers' Tools to the Handles

Recent Foreign Inventions

Feeding Printing Presses

Purifying Fish Oils without Heat

Uniformity of Weights and Measures

Law of Freezing Water—Beautiful Adjustment

Cheap Ocean Postage

Application of Chloroform

The San Francisco

The Caloric Ship Ericsson

Crystal Palace

The Mackerel Fisheries

Foreign Scientific Memoranda

Cotton in the United States

Adulteration of Drugs and Medicines

Reports of the Crystal Palace Juries

Leeds' Patent Ventilator

Improved Auger Handle

To Prepare Pure Caustic Potash

On the Probable Depth of the Ocean of the European Chalk Deposits

Indelible Inks, and Paper

Papyri at Herculaneum

Trial of Pumps

Mechanics

Manufacturers and Inventors

Departments

A Chapter of Suggestions, &C

To Correspondents