Scientific American Magazine
Volume 7, Issue 17You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Improved Self-Closing Bridge
Notes on Naval and Military Affairs
Miscellaneous Summary
Polytechnic Association of the American Institute
The Properties of Iron and its Resistance to Projectiles at High Velocities
Character, Cultivation and Use of the Lupine
Photography and Forgery
Paper Money as a Government Resource
Lupine and Crooked Beam Plows
Malachite and Works of Art
More About Cotton and its Substitutes
The Price of Coal and Burning of Fuel
Natural Shape of the Foot--How Boots and Shoes Ought to be Made
An American Sculptor
Wonderful Balloon Ascent for Scientific Purposes--Greatest Hight Ever Attained by Man
Recent American Inventions
Recent Foreign Inventions
Patent Claims
To Our Readers
Valuable Receipts
A New Principle for Fans and Pumps
Departments
Correspondence
Notes and Queries