Scientific American Magazine Vol 38 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 38, Issue 12

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Features

Turning a Corner on the Gilbert Elevated Railway

Will Our Moon Ever Rise in the West?

Work Ahead for Inventors

Improvements Wanted in Working Gold and Silver Ores

The Harvest of the Sea

The New York Herald's Best Work

Clothes Moths

C. V. Riley

Patent Office Models

The Steam Boiler Explosion Commission

Large Steam Pumping Engines--A Duplex Pressure Pump

Bozerian's New Shower Bath

Astronomical Notes

Berlin H. Wright

The Saccharometer

Selimo Bottone

A New Tool

Why Nuts Come Loose and Bolts Drop Out

[For the Scientific American.]

Improved Hose Coupling

Curtis' Propelling and Dry Dock Attachment for Vessels

The Red Wolf

Easel for Pottery Decoration

New Apparatus for Measuring the Vaporizing Heat of Liquids

A New Mode of Ditching

The Spontaneous Generation Controversy

Communications Received - March 23, 1878

Departments

Business and Personal - March 23, 1878

Notes and Queries - March 23, 1878

New Books and Publications - March 23, 1878

Index of Inventions - March 23, 1878