Scientific American Magazine Vol 2 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 2, Issue 12

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Features

Our Measures

Improved Rag-Picker

The Lime Light

The Obstruction to the Navigation of Rivers Caused by the Piers of Bridges

J. W. Sprague

Boracic Acid in the Pacific

Tenement Houses--A Good Idea

American Machinery for the Amoor River

Curing Smoky Chimneys

Cutting Files by Machinery

Our Shipping

Experience in Tempering Mill Picks

Experiments in Cast Iron

Cleaning Steam Boilers

Improved Saw Set

Manufacture and uses of Starch

Iron Beams for Drill Rooms

Saving Life in Shipwreck

Polytechnic Association of the American Institute

American Naval Architecture

A Column of Varieties

Defects of Calf-Skin Leather

Greenwood Cemetery in Winter

Improved Tool for Cutting Round Tenons

Improved Seeding Machine

Agricultural Science and Machines

The Philosophy of the Photograph

A Singular Accident

Trade Strikes

Industry--Manufactures--Commerce

Mole Plows

The Pemberton Mill to be Re-Built

Foreign News and Markets - March 17, 1860

Weekly Summary of Inventions - March 17, 1860

Patent Claims - March 17, 1860

Issued from the United States Patent Office

Applications for the Extension of Patents

Hints To our Readers

The British Cotton Trade

Sutton's Improved Calipers

Improved Saw Buckle

One of the Mysteries

Improved Cant Hook

Departments

Notes and Queries - March 17, 1860