Scientific American Magazine Vol 60 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 60, Issue 8

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Features

Report of the Commissioner of Patents for 1888

Official Trial Op the Gunboat Yorktown

A Reply to the New York "World"

A Device for Sharpening Stone-Cutting Tools

A Device for Piercing Ears and Inserting Earrings

An Improved Wire Tightener

An Improved Brake Shoe for Railroad Cars

An Improved Steam Heater

An Improved Axle

An Improved Fire Escape

An Improved Railway

An Improved Plow Clevis

An Improved Guard for Step Ladders

Gun Cotton-Its History, Manufacture, Use

Karl Rohrer

Test of the Cast Steel Breech Loading Rifle of open Hearth Steel

Terraced Irrigation Process of Sewage Disposal

T. O'Conor Sloane

The Jerboa

Simple Experiments in Physics

Geo. M. Hopkins

To Inventors- February 23, 1889

Departments

Correspondence- February 23, 1889

Recently Patented Inventions- February 23, 1889

Business and Personal- February 23, 1889

Notes and Queries- February 23, 1889

New Books and Publications- February 23, 1889

Index of Invention- February 23, 1889