Scientific American Magazine
Volume 6, Issue 2You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Improved Wool Washing Apparatus
Notes on Military and Naval Affairs
Importance of Sleeping With the Mouth Shut
Surface Condensers for Steam Engines
Water Glass
Six Good Reasons Why Every Manufacturer, Mechanic, Inventor and Artizan Should Become a Patron of the Scientific American
Destructive Fire Shells
Type-Setting by Machinery
Why Does Coke Kindle More Quickly Than Anthracite Coal?
Forests on the North Sides of Hills
The Brown Stone of Our Houses Crumbling to Pieces
Value of Inventions in Time of War--What They Have Done for England
Recent American Inventions
Notes on Foreign Inventions and Discoveries
Patent Claims
To Our Readers
Platt and Rosecrans's Star Burner
Kaufman's Home-Made Corn-Broom
Departments
Correspondence
Notes & Queries