Scientific American Magazine Vol 26 Issue 11

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 26, Issue 11

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Features

Improved Portable Steam Brick Machine, Traction Engine

Stove Manufactories in Troy

Inventions and Patents Connected with Building

Mining in Colorado

A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, writing

The Comba Scura Bridge--Mont Cenis Railway

Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[Reported for the Scientific American.)

The Lowell Water Wheel Tests

The Beckwith Improved Sewing Machine

Drying Substances by Hot Air

Beet Sugar in the United States

Science in the Courts

The Knowledge of Specific Heat Applied to the Determination of Very High Temperatures

Scientific and Practical Information

The Amalgamation of Ores of the Precious Metals

American District Telegraph Company.—A New Enterprise

Psychic Force.—Spirit Faces

Recent American and Foreign Patents - March 9, 1972

Departments

Correspondence - March 9, 1872

Notes and Queries - March 9, 1872

Answers to Correspondents - March 9, 1872

Business and Personal - March 9, 1872

Index of Inventions - March 9, 1872

New Books and Publications - March 9, 1872