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Scientific American Magazine Vol 56 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 56, Issue 6

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Features

Bridging the Hudson at Poughkeepsie

The Bell Telephone Suits

Sir Joseph Whitworth

The Pet Ambition of John Roach

Device for Trimming the Ends of Tubes

An Electrical Music Baton

Lathe for Amateurs and Light Shop Work

Back Band for Harness

The Ingersoll Duplex Rock Drilling Machine

Improved Lead Pipe Reel

Improved Gas Pliers

Balanced Cooking Stove for Ships

Improved Spring Wheel Traction Engine

Some New Fishes

C. F. Holder

Swing Bicycle

Improved Railway Rail Joint

Improved Car Brake

Science in Toys

Engineering Inventions - February 5, 1887

To Inventors - February 5, 1887

Mechanical Inventions - February 5, 1887

Miscellaneous Inventions - February 5, 1887

Agricultural Inventions - February 5, 1887

Departments

Correspondence - February 5, 1887

Business and Personal - February 5, 1887

Index of Inventions - February 5, 1887

Notes and Queries - February 5, 1887