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Scientific American Magazine Vol 39 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 39, Issue 4

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Features

The New Twin Steamer "Calais-Douvres"

Destruction Vs Construction of Ironclads

Professor Langley's Papers on the Sun

Strawberries and Constipation

Vulcanizing Rubber

The Sun

A Total Eclipse

S. P Langley

Edison's Phonomoter

Excavating Scoop, New Mechanical Inventions, and More

Communications - July 27, 1878

New Screw Cutting Lathe

How to Use a File

Joshua Rose

Gampert's Wood-Sole Shoe

New Cloth Measuring Apparatus

Landing of Cleopatra's Needle

The Total Eclipse of the Sun

The Adjutant

New Iron Fence

Preserving Fish by Hydraulic Pressure

The Curiosities of Tobacco

Astronomical Notes - July 27, 1878

Berlin H Wright

Communications Received - July 27, 1878

Departments

Notes and Queries - July 27, 1878

Business and Personal - July 27, 1878

Index of Inventions - July 27, 1878