Scientific American Magazine Vol 4 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 4, Issue 4

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Features

Apparatus for Utilizing the Waste Gases from Blast Furnaces

The Science of Common Things

Misapprehensions among Inventors — Patents North and South — Suggestions to Mechanics

Romance of the Steam Engine

Electricity and Some of its Practical Applications

Teissere's Blank Stamping Press

Newton's Improvement in Pressure Gages

Johnson's Pumps for Compressing Elastic Fluids

Column of Varieties

Tilton's Improved Temple

Wortendyke's Improved Wicks for Candles

The New Commissioner of Patents

Firearms and Rifle Breech Loaders

The Fertility of Inventors

The Way Wealth is Distributed

The Polytechnic Association of the American Institute

Patent Claims - January 26, 1861

Departments

Our Correspondence - January 26, 1861

Notes and Queries - January 26, 1861