Scientific American Magazine
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Features
Improved Rotary Spader, The Feat of the “Queen of the West”
Miscellaneous Summary
Modern English Engineering Practice
Valuable Receipts
What Can Be Done for Inventors--Advice Gratis and Advice for Pay
American and English Steam Fire-Engines
The Pressure of the Atmosphere--A Vacuum
A Board of Admiralty
Absorption of Gases by Water and the Lungs
A Chance for the Ingenious
A New Illuminator--Smith's Air Light
Discoveries and Inventions Abroad
Recent American Patents
Patent Claims
Tea
Brigg's Patent Sad-Iron Envelope
Departments
Correspondence
Notes and Queries