Scientific American Magazine
Volume 4, Issue 8You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Improved Hot Air Furnace, Why Does Gunpowder Drive a Ball from a Cannon and more
Romance of the Steam Engine - February 23, 1861
Humbert's Improved Watch Escapement
American Engineers' Association
Column of Varieties
Another Great Mechanic Gone
What Inventors Have Done
Altering our Naval Vessels
The Proposed New Tariff
American Coal
Passage of the Patent Bill
Unproductive Consumption of Wealth
The Polytechnic Association of the American Institute
Patent Claims - February 23, 1861
Departments
Our Correspondence - February 23, 1861
Notes and Queries - February 23, 1861