Scientific American Magazine
Volume 60, Issue 8You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
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
Test of the Cast Steel Breech Loading Rifle of open Hearth Steel
Terraced Irrigation Process of Sewage Disposal
The Jerboa
Simple Experiments in Physics
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