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Scientific American Magazine Vol 11 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 11, Issue 8

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Features

Improved Coasting Sled, Checking Perspiration and More

The Manufacture of “Greenbacks”

Rules for Firing Cannon

Bones

Photographic Items

The Metal Magnesium

Economy of Fuel

Concerning Boiler Explosions

The Currency Question

Mines in Warfare

The Steam Car on the Second Avenue Railroad

The Hecker and Waterman Experiments

The New Law for Measuring Ships

Recent American Patents

Patents Granted for Seventeen Years!

Issued From the United States Patent-Office for the Week Ending August 9, 1864.

Departments

Notes and Queries