Scientific American Magazine Vol 45 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 45, Issue 9

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Features

Watertown, N. Y., and its Water Power

“A Militia for the Sea”

The Cotton Manufacture

Is Consumption Contagious?

Schaeberle's Comet

A Remarkable Instance of Retention of Heat by the Earth

H. C. Hovey

Opening of the Paris Electric Exhibition

Improved Filter

Mechanical Inventions

Improved Door Latch

Improved Shutter-Worker

Improved Spring Bed

Temporary Steering Apparatus of H.M.S. Bacchante

How to Make Good Cider and to Keep it

Novel Machine for Demagnetizing Watches

The Guacharo, or Oil Bird

Miscellaneous Inventions

Communications Received

Departments

Correspondence

New Inventions

Notes and Queries

Index of Inventions

New Books and Publications

Business and Personal