American Industries.--No. 6
The Manufacture of Reed Organs
Volume 40, Issue 8
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Features
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
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.]