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Scientific American Magazine
April 1883
Volume 48
,
Issue 17
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Features
The Ottawa River Dam
Does Good Work Pay?
Relative Costs of Street Lighting by Electricity and Gas in New York
The Great Bridge Almost Completed
Making a Drill Chuck
Aspects of the Planets for May
Seals in Long Island Sound
H. C. Hovey
An Artificial Aurora Borealis
Bulkheads for Steamships
Piefke's Filter
The Hudson River Tunnel
Mice-Girdled Trees
Improvement in Tunnel and House Building
Automatic Four-Roller Mill
Physics Without Apparatus
Manufacture of Charcoal
Agricultural Inventions
Mechanical Inventions
Engineering Inventions
Miscellaneous Inventions
Communications Received
Departments
Recent Inventions
Notes and Queries
Business and Personal
New Books and Publications
Index of Inventions