Scientific American Magazine
Volume 9, Issue 49You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
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