Scientific American Magazine Vol 3 Issue 10

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 3, Issue 10

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Features

Improved Truck and Fire-Escape

The Mechanics and Mathematics of Musical Vibrations

Spencer B. Driggs

Oliver Evans and the form of Ships

Does All Sound Move at the Same Velocity?

Davis's Patent Sewing Machine Stitch

Charcoal for the Teeth

The Setting and Hanging of Saws

Woodruff's Improved Barometer

The Crank Motion Again

The Science of Bread-Making

The Year of Great Meteors

The Farmers' Club on Lightning

Talk with the Boys

No. S.--The Steam Engine

Attraction and Conduction

A Column of Varieties

Criticisms on the Experiments with Turbine Wheels at Philadelphia

Improved Mode of Hanging Wheel Vehicles

An India-Rubber Saddle Suggested

Improved Potato-Digger

The Accumulation of Gold and its Effect Upon Commerce and Society

New Steamers Crossing the Atlantic in Five Days

Literary and Scientific Notices

History, Theory and Practice of the Electric Telegraph.

Holmes' Rule for Setting Steam Boilers

Recent American Inventions

Our Washington Correspondence

Rival Sewing Machines--Elias Howe's Extension

Money Received

New Books and Periodicals Received - September 1, 1860

Improved Clothes-Washing Machine

Improved Lamp

New Process of Refining Sugar

The Cause of the Failure of the Atlantic Telegraph

Departments

Notes and Queries - September 1, 1860