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Scientific American Magazine Vol 56 Issue 21

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 56, Issue 21

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Features

The Magazine Gun as a Military Arm

The Celestial World

Steam Cruiser Atlanta, U. S. N.

Improved Shuttle Cushioner for Power Looms

Beet Sugar Manufacturing Processes

Device for Detaching Horses from Vehicles

Carrier for Ash Pans

A Night Sight for Ordnance

Improved Camera Shutter

The Hudson River Tunnel

New Armored Cruiser for the Spanish Navy

A Self-Cleaning Metal Valve

A Large Casting

The Berdan Torpedo Boat

James Dwight Dana

Marcus Benjamin

Science in Toys

X

Polarized Light

Geo. M. Hopkins

Miscellaneous Inventions - May 21, 1887

Agricultural Invention - May 21, 1887

Engineering Inventions - May 21, 1887

Special - May 21, 1887

The Test by Results

To Inventors - May 21, 1887

Departments

Business and Personal - May 21, 1887

Notes and Queries - May 21, 1887

Index of Inventions - May 21, 1887

New Books and Publications - May 21, 1887