Scientific American Magazine Vol 28 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 28, Issue 2

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Features

Direct Acting Steam and Hydrostatic Press

The New York Industrial Exhibition

Government Telegraphy

Losses of Power in the Steam Engine. Where it May be Improved and to What Extent

The Henderson Iron Process

Corn as Fuel

Art Treasures from Cyprus--English Criticism on their Destination

Patent Business in Congress

Friction of Journals

The Anti-Sea-Sick Ship

New Theory of the Aurora

Professor Tyndall on Light--Second Lecture

The Lyons Exposition Elevated Railway

Improved Blast Furnace

The Great Laxey Water Wheel

The Progress of Chemistry in 1872

A Gigantic Fire Engine

Scientific and Practical Information

Recent Patent Decisions

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Under this heading we shall publish weekly notes of some of the more prominent home and foreign patents.

Answers to Correspondents

Departments

Correspondence

New Books and Publications

Index of Inventions

Business and Personal

Notes and Queries