Scientific American Magazine Vol 27 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 27, Issue 20

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Features

Loom for Weaving Fabrics of Any Width

Transmission of Motion

[From Journal of the Franklin Institute.]
A Lecture Delivered by Coleman Sellers, at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., February 19th, 1872.]
Number II

Has Our Climate Changed?

The Use of Water Glass in Building

Improved Conservatory

Rolling Shutters

Plating and Coating Metals

On Certain Undescribed Properties of the Concentrated Solar Rays

George Robinson

Manganiferous Iron

Flexible Pipe Coupling

Sash Pulleys

Life-Saving Inventions Needed

The Vienna Exposition

The Antiquity of Man

Binary Engines

The Horse Disease and Street Cars

An Improvement Wanted

The Saxby and Farmer Railway Signals

Sunday Railway Trains

The Contradictions of Science

Corundum in Pennsylvania

Petroleum in Massachusetts

Death of Hon. John A. Griswold

Copies of Patents

Important Improvement in Textile Weaving

The Georgia State Fair

[Correspondence of the Scientific American.]

The Burning of the Escurial

Incrustation of Boilers

Answers to Correspondents

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Practical Hints to Inventors

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal

Notes and Queries

Index of Inventions

New Books and Publications