Features
Chloride of Sodium (Common Salt) in Intermittent Fever
Crayons
Gold at the Mint
Court Plaster
Lectures on Chemistry.—No. 2
[Reported expressly for the Scientific American]
The New Crystal Palace
The First Prize
The Poetry of Mechanism
First Locomotive West of the Mississippi
Deterioration of Soils—Agricultural Report of Ohio
Cast-Iron Pavements &C
Speaking through Tubes
The Sphinx
Coupling Shafts and Axles
Improved Straw Cutter
Improved Clover Thresher
Plastering Machine
Spike-Making Machine
Counterfeit Coin Detector
Forcing Down Lids of Boxes
Register for Clocks
Stitching Shoes by Machinery
Intelligent Mechanics
The Ether Controversy—Dangerous Legislation
Steam Engines
Critical Dissertation on Steam, Air, and Gas Engines
The Patent Office
Extension of a Patent
Recent Foreign Inventions
The Fire Annihilator a Fire Propagator
Improvement in the Steam Engine
A Patentee and the Bank of England
American Fashion and Birmingham Buttons
Departments
- From the Editor
To Subscribers
To Correspondents
- Reviews
A Chapter of Suggestions, &C