Scientific American Magazine Vol 3 Issue 7

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 3, Issue 7

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Features

Improved Rock and Tump-Lifter

Sulphur in Rain

Minot's Ledge Light-House

The Magnetic Properties of Iron

A Pernicious Dentifrice

The British Association for the Advancement of Science

An Improvement Needed in Sugar-Cane Mills

Compensating Pendulums

The Harbor of New York.

Practical Test of a Good Valve

Silver's Marine Governor Controversy

Gas to Replace Steam as a Motive Power

Sausage-Cutter and Filler

Popular Errors about Friction

The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Improved Soldering-Iron

The Improved Telegraph Cable an American Invention

Who are Our Great Men?

A Property of the Crank Motion

A New Way to Lay the Atlantic Cable

Thunder and Lightning

A Column of Varieties

Talk With the Boys

Wright's Friction Clutch

Patent Right for Tanning Wanted

Improved Self-Acting Wagon Brake

American Landscape Gardening

Explosions of Boilers and the Cause

Pneumatic Telegraphs and Pneumatic Powers

Hot Weather and Burning Winds

Excursion of the Great Eastern to Cape May

Recent American Inventions - August 11, 1860

Patent Claims

Useful Hints to Our Readers

Money Received

A Plan for Drawing Canal Boats by Locomotives

Improved Printers' Galley

Raining Snakes

Improved Printers' Composing Stick

Departments

Notes and Queries - August 11, 1860