Scientific American Magazine
Volume 2, Issue 4You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
The Process of Beer-Making--Mechanical, Chemical and Microscopic
Patent Extension Cases
Our Correspondence - January 21, 1860
Coal Tar for Trees
The Winans Steamship
Combination Lamp and Match Box
Chinese Sugar Cane as Cattle Feed
The Decimal System of Weights and Measures
American Timber for Shipbuilding
The Way the Temperature of our Bodies is Regulated
Latest Discoveries in Africa
The Evils of Trades' Strikes
Some Statistics of Tobacco
Boiler Incrustations
A Column of Varieties
"Are You Insured?"
New Vibrating Harrow
Lightning Accidents in 1859
Underhill's Leaf Beehive
A Law that Cannot be Executed--Congressional Blindness about Patent Matters--Reforms Wanted
Engineering Precedents
Weekly Summary of Inventions - January 21, 1860
Fall of a Factory--Sad Affair
Frictional Gearing
New York Markets
Foreign News and Markets - January 21, 1860
Patent Claims - January 21, 1860
Hints to our Readers
Gordon's Watch Regulator
Bryant's Improved Journal-Box
Departments
Notes and Queries - January 21, 1860
