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Scientific American Magazine
April 1879
Volume 40
,
Issue 17
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Features
Notes on Faience and its Manufacture
The Site of the Great New York Exhibition
The Australian Exhibitions
Frost and Yellow Fever
Interest-Bearing Notes
Is the Moon Inhabited?
The Bicycle as a Practical Road Vehicle
The Aniline Colors
Recent American Patents
Blasting by Compressed Air
A Novel Rotary Engine
Edison's Electro-Chemical Telephone
Engineering Inventions
Premiums for Boys
A Convenient Box for Artists
A New Carbureter
The Great Crab-Spider
Improved Barrel for Breech-Loading Shot Guns
Gray Pottery
New Agricultural Inventions
Old Homes Made New
To Inventors
Communications Received
Departments
Correspondence
Notes and Queries
Business and Personal
Index of Inventions