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Scientific American Magazine Vol 10 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 10, Issue 9

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Features

Great Guns

Improved Turret

The Most Important American Discoveries and Inventions

J. Scott Russell's Report on Gun-Cotton

Iron-Clad Ships of War

The World's Indebtedness to Science

Godwin's Patent Lubricator

Polytechnic Association of the American Institute

Navy Committee to Examine Inventions

Recent American Patents

Miscellaneous Summary

The Laws of Expansion

Distilled Water for High Pressure Engines

Wines, Almonds, and Olives in California

Submarine Firing--Are Armor-Plates Worthless?

Patent Claims

The Whiskey Controversy

Patents Granted for Seventeen Years!

To Our Readers

Rates of Advertising

The Cheapest Mode of Introducing Inventions

A Valuable Work for Inventors Patentees and Manufacturers

Improved Hand-stamp, The Earth's Temperature in Palaeozoic Times

Departments

Correspondence

Notes and Queries