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Scientific American Magazine Vol 56 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 56, Issue 18

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Features

The First American Type Writer

Ant-Eater and Penguin

The United States Joins the Industrial Union

The Keystone Automatic Car Coupler

Combined Latch and Lock

Improved Cutter Bar for Mowers and Reapers

Improved Condenser for Wool, Cotton, Cotton Waste, Etc.

Improved Stove Pipe Collar

Improved Firearm

Device for Securing Envelopes, Etc.

Combined Cigarette and Match Box

Improved Butter Jar

Improved Ore Crusher and Amalgamator

Improved Peach Stoner

Eight Light Dynamo

George M. Hopkins

The Polar Bear and Seals

Exercises in Prestidigitation

Conduit for Underground Conductors

Elevated Cable Road with Suspended Car

Apparatus for Determining the Specific Gravity of Liquids

T. O'Conor Sloane

Miscellaneous Inventions - April 30, 1887

Engineering Inventions - April 30, 1887

To Inventors - April 30, 1887

Departments

Correspondence - April 30, 1887

Notes and Queries - April 30, 1887

New Books and Publications - April 30, 1887

Business and Personal - April 30, 1887

Index of Inventions - April 30, 1887