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Scientific American Magazine Vol 56 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 56, Issue 20

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Features

Colossus, of the British Navy

Electric Accumulators

Headway of Great Ships

Improved Harrow and Pulverizer

Vegetable Grater

Improved Horizontal Stationary Engine

Watch for the Blind

Device for Operating Awnings

Clearing Attachment for Grain Drills

Folding and Pasting Machines

Improved Lamp Post

Violin Tuning Peg

A Perpetual Motion Machine--Will it Work?

Steno-Telegraphy

The Porcupine in the Berlin Zoological Garden

The Mechanical Working of Ballast Quarries

A Simple Galvanometer

Experiment in Magnetism

Miscellaneous Inventions - May 14, 1887

Engineering Inventions - May 14, 1887

Agricultural Inventions - May 14, 1887

To Inventors - May 14, 1887

Departments

Correspondence - May 14, 1887

Business and Personal - May 14, 1887

New Books and Publications - May 14, 1887

Notes and Queries - May 14, 1887

Index of inventions - May 14, 1887