Scientific American Magazine
Volume 38, Issue 16You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Report of the Director of the Central Park Museum, 1878
A Sailing Railway Car
Every Man His Own Keely Motor
The Intensity of Telephonic Sounds
Progress at the Patent Office
Color Blindness
How Fast Can You Think?
Sea Water as a Beverage
Slotting Machine
Improved Sewer Gas Check Valve for Stationary Wash Basins, Etc
Improved Circulating Generator for Steam Boilers
Communications
Improved Nut Lock
Some New Workshop Appliances
Centrifugal Pumping Engine
Improved Dovetailing Machine
New Investigations on Gallium
The Victoria Regia
Redier's New Registering Thermometer
The Horn Bug
The Philadelphia Lawn Mowers
Astronomical Notes
Communications Received
The Scientific American
Departments
Notes and Queries
Business and Personal
Index
Patents