Scientific American Magazine
Volume 38, Issue 11You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
The Holden Ice Machine
Wanted: A Legal Process for Confiscating Inventions
A Congressional Scientific Expedition
Geographical Progress
Educated Brutes at the New York Aquarium
The Lesson of the Chinese Famine
“Heat is Life-Cold is Death”
The National Steam Pump
The Helioscope
Punching and Shearing Machine
Phillips' Improved Buckboard Wagon
A New Boat Propelling Device
Millington's Hydraulic Ram
Gathering Toddy
Serpents at Dinner
The Life of a Million People
Colmer's Dosimeter
M. Plante's New Rheostatic Machine
Astronomical Notes
Evolution
Communications Received - March 16, 1878
Departments
Business and Personal - March 16, 1878
Notes and Queries - March 16, 1878
Index of Inventions - March 16, 1878
Patents - March 16, 1878