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Scientific American Magazine
August 1883
Volume 49
,
Issue 5
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Features
The Manufacture of Electrical Conductors
A Brave Life Gone Out
Old Building Material
Completion of the Great Lyman-Haskell Gun
The Telephone Interference Case Decided
The Relations of Patent Experts to the Courts
Picker Fires
Sketching for Mechanics
The Caterpillar and Its Enemy
Parallels for Balancing Pulleys, Etc.
The Telescope at the Trocadero Observatory
Improved Reversing Rail Mill Engines
The Turbot, Goldbutt, and Sole
Natural History Notes
Mechanical Inventions
Agricultural Inventions
Miscellaneous Inventions
Engineering Inventions
Communications Received
Departments
Recent Inventions
New Books and Publications
Business and Personal
Index of Inventions
Notes and Queries