Scientific American Magazine Vol 24 Issue 7

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 24, Issue 7

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Features

Cochrane's Mariner's Sound Indicator, Purifying Gas and Soap Limes

Device for Closing Ruptures in Fire Hose

A Woman's View of the Patent Office

The Land of Fire and Ice

The Incrustation of Boilers

[Condensed from Engineering.]

Perpetual Motion- February 11, 1871

Pruning Shears

Improved Cistern Filter

A Romance of Science

Improved Coal Ash Sifter

Cod-Liver Oil

Excavation and Embankment Tables

The Alloys of Copper

An Invention Wanted to Clean the Streets of Snow. Solution of the Problem to be Found in Steam

The Adulteration of Petroleum

"And There were Giants in Those Days"—The Largest Inventor Yet—A Most Remarkable Family of Gigantic Turks

Boynton's Lightning Saw

The Downfall of Paris

The Present and the Past- February 11, 1871

Scientific Intelligence- February 11, 1871

Answers to Correspondents- February 11, 1871

Queries- February 11, 1871

Offical List of Patents- February 11, 18711

Issued by the U. S. Patent Office

Recent American and Foreign Patents- February 11, 1871

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

Departments

Correspondence - February 11, 1871

New Books and Publications- February 11, 1871

Business and Personal- February 11, 1871