Scientific American Magazine Vol 40 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 40, Issue 8

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Features

American Industries.--No. 6

The Manufacture of Reed Organs

Skating on Artificial Ice

The New Patent Bill.—Shall it Pass the House?

Creosoted Wood as a Protection against Teredoes

A Paper Observatory Dome

A New and Important Mineral

Recent Experiments with “Laughing Gas”.

The Woodbury Planing Machine Case

A New Ice Creeper

An Improvement in Neck Yokes

An Improved Fruit Can

Recent American Patents

A New Steam Wagon

Stop Motion Hand Piece for Dental Engines

Miscellaneous Inventions

An Improved Parallel Ruler

A New Whiffletree Hook

A Combined Chopper and Cultivator

Green Carolina Anolis; Or, The American Chameleon

Daniel C. Beard

A New Torpedo Boat

A Wonderful Tree

A Simple Electric Pen

To Inventors

Prospectus of the Scientific American for 1879

The Most Popular Scientific Paper in the World. VOLUME XL—NEW SERIES

Communications Received

Index of Inventions

For Which Letters Patent of the United States were Granted in the Week Ending January 14, 1879, AND EACH BEARING THAT DATE. [Those marked (r) are reissued patents.]

Departments

Notes and Queries

Business and Personal

Patents