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Scientific American Magazine Vol 24 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 24, Issue 18

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Features

Colors of the Sea

Improved Excavator

Tilghman's Process of Cutting Hard Substances

Coleman Sellers

Something about Seeds

W. W. Bailey

Cochineal Insects and their Allies

E. C. H. Day

Mortar Light

Molding and Mixing Machines, used by the Union Stone Company--The Sorel Process of Manufacturing Artificial Stone

Cope & Maxwell's Upright Boiler Feeder

Roofs and Roofing

Proposed Changes in the British Patent Laws

Canal Navigation

Mining Schools in the United States

Scientific Intelligence- April 29, 1871

Uses of Infusorial Silica

Carbolic Acid

Editorial Summary

Recent American and Foreign Patents- April 29, 1871

Queries- April 29, 1871

Answers to Correspondents- April 29, 1871

Official Lists of Patents- April 29, 1871

Issued by the U. S. Patent Office

Applications for Extension of Patents- April 29, 1871

Departments

Correspondence- April 29, 1871

Business and Personal- April 29, 1871

New Books and Publications- April 29, 1871