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Scientific American Magazine Vol 57 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 57, Issue 12

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Features

Electro-Motor Batteries

An Improved Dumping Car

An Automatic Railway Crossing Gate

An Improved Shaft Coupling

An Improved Elevated Railway Gate

An Improved Car Coupling

An Improved Pipe Tongs or Wrench

Improved Attachment for Blinding Horses

A Pattern Tracing and Cutting Device

An Improved Bit for Horses

An Improved Saw Filing Machine

An Improved Bell Cord Coupling

Our New Navy--The Cruiser Chicago

The Olbers-Brooks Comet

Light Draught Steam Launches

Fireless Mining Locomotive

A Singhalese Yacht

An Inexpensive Index Plate

Engineering Inventions - September 17, 1887

Agricultural Invention - September 17, 1887

Miscellaneous Inventions - September 17, 1887

Departments

Correspondence - September 17, 1887

Business and Personal - September 17, 1887

New Books and Publications - September 17, 1887

Index of Inventions - September 17, 1887

Notes and Queries - September 17, 1887