Scientific American Magazine Vol 4 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 4, Issue 8

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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