Scientific American Magazine Vol 49 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 49, Issue 8

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Features

Hooping Barrels by Machinery

Hard Wood Flooring

How Granite Columns are Polished

The Carson Footprints

Water Supply for New York City

Palestine as a Route for a New Ship Canal

The Chinese Junk

John R. Coryell

New Lighthouse at Tampico

Spring Wheel for Traction Engines

Method of Preserving Ensilage in Silos

From Paris to Rio Janeiro in 42 Minutes and 11 Seconds

New Expansion Trap

New Combination Lock

A Jardiniere, Bird Cage, and Aquarium Combined

Lightning Prints on the Human Body

Miscellaneous Inventions

Agricultural Inventions

Engineering Inventions

Mechanical Inventions

Departments

Correspondence

Recent Inventions

Index of Inventions

New Books and Publications

Business and Personal

Notes and Queries