Scientific American Magazine Vol 5 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 5, Issue 12

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Features

Improved Wool-drying Apparatus

The War

Thermometer as a Steam Pressure Gage

The Power of a Moving Body—The Simple Facts of the Case

Social Science Congress

The American Photographical Society

The Influence of War on Inventions

Phenomena Attending Combustion—Gas and Candle Light

The Bombardment of Fort Hatteras—Shells and Big Guns

Information as to the Patentable Novelty of Inventions

Glass for Leyden Jars

The Armstrong Gun and Angulated Iron Plates

New Engine Condensers

Patents Granted for Lubricating Compounds

Patent Claims - September 21, 1861

Recent American Inventions

Work and Power

Patents in the Southern Confederacy

Instructions about European Patents

The New Gunboats

Departments

Correspondence - September 21, 1861

Notes and Queries - September 21, 1861