Scientific American Magazine Vol 9 Issue 49

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 9, Issue 49

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Features

Profusion of Life in the Ocean

Crawford, the American Artist

Tempering and Grinding Steel

A Toad Insulated

Iron Houses

Spontaneous Combustion—A Warning to Manufacturers

Thompson's Life Preserving Seat

A New Tubular Condenser

Another Trip of the Ericsson

Hardening Tallow

The Wheat Fly

Great Engineering Invention

Bone Dust

Scientific Memoranda—American

Foreign Scientific Memoranda

Recent Foreign Inventions

Cleaning Boiler Flues

Iron Wheel Fellies

Improvements in Switches for Railroads

Governor for Steam Engines

Steam Carriages for Common Roads

The Colt Patent in Congress

List of Patent Claims

England's Tribute to American Manufacture of Arms

A Railroad Anecdote

What our Country Pays for Guano

Plated Ware

New Plastic Compound for Useful and Ornamental Purposes

Departments

To Our Readers

To Correspondents