Scientific American Magazine
Volume 7, Issue 9You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Improved Iron Truss Bridge
Notes on Naval and Military Affairs
Census Statistics of 1860
The Ram Arkansas
John Scott Russell on Iron-Clad Ships
Schau's Boiler Scale Preventer
Indian Corn for England
Explosions of Boilers-Renewed Discussions of Theories
Filling of the Great Reservoir
The Post Office--Its Rise and Progress
Our Iron-Clad Fleet
Valuable Receipts
Manufacture of Saltpeter
Recent Foreign Inventions - August 30, 1862
Recent American Inventions - August 30, 1862
Patent Claims
To Our Readers
Departments
Correspondence - August 30, 1862
On Force-Laws of Motion
Notes and Queries - August 30, 1862