Scientific American Magazine Vol 38 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 38, Issue 18

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Features

New Mechanical Inventions

Improved Machine Tools

What is Life?

How Patents Affect Prices

Congress and the Patent Office Funds

The Decline of the Ironclad

Hydraulic Mining in California

Improved Tool Stocks for Dental Engines

New York Academy of Sciences

Astronomical Notes - May 4, 1878

Berlin H. Wright

Improved Insect Powder Blower

Lining Roofs with Mineral Wool

Improved Clam Baker

The Boiling Lake of Dominica

The Oil Bearing Sands of Pennsylvania

The Pyrenean Pine

Improved Receiver and Stench Trap

Improved Pipe Tongs

Influence of Cosmical Matter

Proposed Injustice to Inventors - May 4, 1878

Hydrobromic Acid

Communications Received - May 4, 1878

The Scientific American - May 4, 1878

Departments

Notes and Queries - May 4, 1878

Business and Personal - May 4, 1878

New Books and Publications - May 4, 1878

Index - May 4, 1878

Patents - May 4, 1878