Scientific American Magazine Vol 24 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 24, Issue 3

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Features

Washing Shield

Stow's Non-corroding Water and Gas Pipe

Improved Cotton Press, Boring Machines at the Mont Cenis Tunnel

Talking Machines

Paint-Pot Holder

Improved Hitching Post

Perpetual Motion - January 14, 1871

Number VII.

Anti-Snoring Device

Merriman's Improved Water-Proof Dress and Life Preserver

Object Teaching and Science

The Proposed Fair of the American Institute in 1876

The New Commissioner of Patents

Mechanical Power

Social Science

Railroad Progress in the Southern States

The Failure of the Hon. Oakes Ames

Queries- January 14, 1871

We present herewith a series of inquiries embracing a variety of topics of greater or less general interest. The questions are simple, it is true, but we prefer to elicit practical answers from our readers.

On Blood and Its Uses

Recent American and Foreign Patents- January 14, 1871

Under this heading we shall publish weekly notes of some of the more prominent home and foreign patents.

Answers to Correspondents- January 14, 1871

Official List of Patents- January 14, 1871

Issued by the U. S. Patent Office. For the Week Ending Jan. 3, 1871. Reported Officially for the Scientific American.

Departments

Correspondence- January 14, 1871

New Books and Publications- January 14, 1871

Business and Personal- January 14, 1871