Scientific American Magazine Vol 39 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 39, Issue 14

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Features

The Pneumatic Clock

Working of Copper Ores

People Who Can't be Helped

Steam on the Common Roads

American Dexterity

Cuba as a Field for Enterprise

Conference of Swiss Wrists at Geneva

An Inventor's Difficulties in England

The "True Thread"

A Promising Field for Invention

Testing Machines at the Paris Exhibition

The Recent Eclipse of the Sun

Astronomical Notes

Penn Yan, N. Y., Saturday, October 5, 1878

Berlin H. Wright

The Stylographic Pen

How to Test a Lathe

Zoological Garden at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, How Calicoes Are Made, and more

The Porcupine Ant Eaters Recently Discovered in New Guinea

The New Carpet Beetle

Departments

Business and Personal

Notes and Queries

Index of Inventions

Patents