Scientific American Magazine Vol 63 Issue 11

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 63, Issue 11

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Features

Important Tests to be made of Heavy Armor Plating

A Convenient Sponge for Cleaning Slates

An Artificial Lake and Water Slide

An Improvement in Locks and Keys

An Improved Slide Valve for Engines

An Improved Knife Sharpener and Polisher

A Coal Elevator for Railway Service

Photographic Notes- September 13, 1890

The Meeting of the Great Shields of the St. Clair River Railway Tunnel

Work of Amateur Electricians

New Form of Towing Steamers

A Swinging Hydraulic Capstan

Killing Large Sunfish with Firearms

The Kola Nut

Nicolas Pike

Engine Pounding--Ways of Stopping It

The Scientific Use of Common Things

Departments

Correspondence- September 13, 1890

Notes and Queries- September 13, 1890

Recently Patented Inventions- September 13, 1890

To Inventors- September 13, 1890

Business and Personal- September 13, 1890

Index of Inventions- September 13, 1890