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Scientific American Magazine Vol 57 Issue 15

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 57, Issue 15

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Features

The Total Eclipse of August 19, 1887

Photographic Notes - October 8, 1887

An Improved Belt Shifting Device

A Safety Package for Money

Improved Lamp and Incombustible Burner

A Device to Keep Vise Jaws Parallel

The Race for the America's Cup

A Self-Registering Measure for Lumber

Decisions Relating to Patents - October 8, 1887

Experiments on the Effects of Detonating Gun Cotton at the U. S. Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I

George Frederic Barker

The Staircase of a Great House

A New Electric Current Meter

G. Forbes

Special - October 8, 1887

To Inventors - October 8, 1887

Agricultural Inventions - October 8, 1887

Engineering Inventions - October 8, 1887

Miscellaneous Inventions - October 8, 1887

Departments

Correspondence - October 8, 1887

Notes and Queries - October 8, 1887

New Books and Publications - October 8, 1887

Index of Inventions - October 8, 1887

Business and Personal - October 8, 1887