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Scientific American Magazine Vol 56 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 56, Issue 5

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Features

The Water Wheels of Hamath

Two Useful Lives

Defeat of the Obnoxious Patent Bill

Apparatus for Extracting Oil from Seeds

Car Starter and Brake

Car Brake Attachment

Combination Tool Wrench

Combination Plow

Cultivator Beam and Point

Cultivator Tonoue And Shovel

Electrical Transmission of Power to a Distance

Lathe Center Grinding Machine

Expansion of Solids, Liquids, and Gases

T. O'conor Sloank

The Rhinoceros in the Park

Science in Toys

Inverted Cylinder Mill Engines

Mechanical Invention - January 29, 1887

Agricultural Inventions - January 29, 1887

Miscellaneous Inventions - January 29, 1887

Engineering Inventions - January 29, 1887

Index of Inventions - January 29, 1887

Departments

Business and Personal - January 29, 1887

Notes and Queries - January 29, 1887