Scientific American Magazine Vol 7 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 7, Issue 17

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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

William Fairbairn

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