Scientific American Magazine Vol 4 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 4, Issue 18

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Features

To Coat Iron with Brass, Improved Mechanical Blow-Pipe

Commander Dahlgren on Iron-Plated Ships

History of Water Gas for Light—Frauds and Patents

Machine Electricity—Electrotyping—Telegraphing—Electric Light

Recent American Inventions

Improvements for the Times—Suggestions to Inventors

Romance of the Steam Engine

Windage in Cannon

Arrival of Major Anderson and the Garrison of Fort Sumter

Exciting Question—Working Steam Expansively

Military and Naval Inventions

Cotton and War

The Polytechnic Association of the American Institute

A Strange, a Solemn, a Stirring Sight

The Events of the War

Patent Claims - May 4, 1861,

Issued from the United States Patent Office

To Our Readers

Lyons' Improved Lock Seal

Clark's Expansive Bit

Departments

Correspondence - May 4, 1861

Notes and Queries - May 4, 1861