Scientific American Magazine Vol 2 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 2, Issue 14

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Features

Higging's Patent Anchor Tripper

The Daguerreotype

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

J. W. Sprague

Glycerine for Gas Meters

Loss of Light by Glass Shades

A Sparkling Vane

How to Make a Mushroom Bed

The Water Wheel Experiments at Philadelphia

A Wonderful Cave

Fawkes' Steam Plow

Philosophical Instruments

A Chance for Inventors--a Greater than Whitney Wanted

Curious Optical Phenomena

Polytechnic Association of the American Institute

A New Areometer for Determining the Real Density of Liquids

English Locomotives on a Bender

Iron and Wooden Ships

American Naval Architecture

A Column of Varieties

Improved Mole for Drain Plows

Improved Hay--Maker

Activity and Industry of Inventors

Working Steam Expansively

Wooden and Iron Ships

The Leather-Dealers and the Lynn Strikers

Self-Acting Ships' Pump

Peroration on a Wagon Brake

Industry--Manufactures--Commerce

Testimonial Letters

The Profits of Tanning

Weekly Summary of Inventions - March 31, 1860

Foreign News and Markets - March 31, 1860

Patent Claims - March 31, 1860

Issued from the United States Patent Office

Howe's Sewing Machine Trial

Jorey's Patent Horse Shoe

Greene's Gas Lamp

Applications for the Extension of Patents

Lapham's Steam Trap

Departments

Notes and Queries - March 31, 1860