Scientific American Magazine Vol 26 Issue 13

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 26, Issue 13

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Features

Collecting and Removing Scums from Boilers

Bridge Over the Mississippi, at Brainerd, Minn.—Northern Pacific Railway

A Navigable Balloon

The Parkes Silver Extracting Process in Germany

Rotary Engines

Determination of High Degrees of Heat by the Melting of Ice

Precipitation of Arsenic by Heat in Marsh's Test

John C. Draper

Hallidie's Wire Rope Way for Transporting Ores

Scientific and Practical Information

Beach's Spark Catcher and Consumer

Ketchum's Pitman Connection

Himmer's Electric Battery

The Problem of Flight

Light Versus Heavy Shafting

The Electro Magnetic Telegraph

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Departments

New Books and Publications - March 23, 1872

Correspondence - March 23, 1872

Business and Personal - March 23, 1872

Notes and Queries - March 23, 1872

Answers to Correspondents - March 23, 1872

Index of inventions - March 23, 1872