Features
Cheap Cough Mixture
Detection of Cotton in Unbleached Linen
Gutta Percha Water Pipes
Looms for Weaving Hair Cloth
To Prevent Milk from Souring
Nails Growing in the Flesh
To Cure Warts
Winds and Currents of the Sea
New Mode of Gearing Reciprocating Motion
Unity of the Human Race
Effect of Alkalies on the Human System
Expansion of Gases
Circular Saws
Oyster and Clam Shell Manures
Silvering Mirrors
New Steam Valve
An Improved Valve Cock
Ornamental Letters for Door Plates
Improvement in Hot-Air Furnaces and Ventilators
Manufacture of Steel
Improved Dental Instrument
The Lords are Coming
Coal—Our Black Diamonds
The London Illustrated News and the Scientific American
Events of the Week
The Plutonists—Heat of the Earth
Generation of Heat
Fire Damp
Scientific Apologists for the Caloric Engine
Cause of Insanity
The Brain
Patent Case
Mechanics
Remedy for the Sting of Bees
About Snakes
Poisons
Musk
Improved Mop Handle
Interesting Discovery in Electro Gilding
Fire-Proof Bronze
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents
- Recommended
A Chapter of Suggestion, &C
