Scientific American Magazine Vol 27 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 27, Issue 18

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Features

Pneumatic Elevator

Plating with Aluminum

From the Deutsche Industrie Zeitung. by Dr. Clemens Winkler

The Health of the Workmen of the East River Bridge

Corundum of North Carolina and Georgia

Combined Pipe Wrench and Vise

Improved Tool Rest

How Patterns in Carpets Are Made

Road-Building in the Caucasus

The Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society

Professor Tyndall's First Lecture in America

Malleable Iron

New Method for Sensitizing Collodion

Publishers' Card to Advertisers

Underground Railroads

Professor J. H. Pepper

An Important Patent Extension Denied

A Million Dollar Telescope

Discouraging Prospects in England

Downfall of the Paper Collar Ring

William Prescott Smith

Professor John W. Frazer

Hanging Wall Paper

Scientific and Practical Information

Edwin Marcus Chaffee

Copies of Patents

Answers to Correspondence

Communications Received

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Practical Hints to Inventors

Departments

Notes and Queries

Business and Personal

Index of Inventions

New Books and Publications