Scientific American Magazine
Volume 3, Issue 13You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Improved Gyrascope Steam Engine Governor
A New Caloric Engine
The Barometer a Useful Instrument
A New Theory of the Formation of the Solar System
Expansion of Metals by Heat
A Hit at Avoirdupois
Compensating Pendulums
Surprising Facts in Regard to the Value of Sewing Machines
Iron WorksTheir Location, Arrangement and Construction
Application for the Extension of a Patent
Melting Zinc by Gas
American and English Oak
American Engineers' Association
Our Special Correspondence
Spontaneous Combustion of Sawdust
The First Steamer that Crossed the Atlantic
Great Improvement in the Electric Light
A Column of Varieties
Hardening of Gutta-Percha
The Farmers' Club on Lightning
Improved Relay and Sounder
Lightning on the Railroad
Clark's Improved Vise
Remarks on Howe's Sewing Machine Extension Case
The Way the Solar System was Formed
Commercial Steamers as Ships of War
The Relation of Science to the Industrial Arts
Awful Steamboat Disaster
The Late Herbert Ingram, M.P., Proprietor of the Illustrated London News
Our Western Correspondence
Recent American Inventions - September 22, 1860
Patent Claims - September 22, 1860
Useful Hint to Our Readers
Money Received
Production of Valuable Manure from the Air
Dr. Griscom's Improved Method of Ventilation
Departments
Notes and Queries - September 22, 1860