Scientific American Magazine Vol 37 Issue 23

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 37, Issue 23

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Features

Professor Mayer's' New Method of Finding the Coefficient of Expansion of Metals and Alloys

Improved Faucet

Is There a Law of Invention?

United States Coinage and the Great Pyramid

Notes of Patent Office Decisions

Adam Scott Cameron

The Distances of the Planets from the Sun

Shooting Stars

The Abandonment of the Cleopatra at Sea

How to Paint Magic Lanterns

Practical Mechanism

Joshua Rose

Self-Watering Flower Pots

Improved Construction of Portable Frame Buildings

The Carolina Mantis

C. Few Seiss

The Truncated Pichiciago

New Trapless Watercloset

Dorr's Adjustable Hat and Coat Rack

Astronomical Notes

The Scientific American

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Communications Received

Wants and Business Inquiries

Departments

New Inventions

Business and Personal

Notes and Queries

Index of Inventions

Patents