Features
New York Ship Building
Capt. Nortan's Projectile
Peer's Vertical Trip Hammer
Recent Foreign Inventions
Imponderable Agents—No. 6
Writing Fluids
[Abstract of a Lecture on the Chemistry of Writing Fluids, delivered before Bacon's Cincinnati Mercantile College, by Prof. Chas. W. Wright, and reported expressly for the Scientific American.]
New Species of Rattlesnakes
Jointing of Belts
List of Patent Claims
Oil and Health
Influence of Elevation upon Cholera
Joiner's Clamp
Proportions of Vessels-Large Ships for Long Voyages
Foreign Patents
Tinning Iron Plates
Door Strip
Drying Starch
Paper Feeder
Regulating Water Level in Steam Boilers
Cement for Bricks and Stones
Mechanical Typographer
Writing Pencil-Something to be Invented
Connecting Hubs with Axles
Sash Fastening
Curing Grass for Hay by Steam
Fires in our City—The Annihilator
Currents of the Pacific
Reform of the Patent Laws—Fees for Foreigners—Extension of Patents—The New Rule
Presentation
Awards of our Prizes
Baker's Furnace at the Crystal Palace
Governors of Engines
Lubricators for Rail Car Axles
Report on Lubricating Oils in the Crystal Palace
Experiments with Rotary Engines at the Crystal Palace
A Chapter of Suggestions, &C
Elevated Promenade and Railroad for Broadway
Interesting to Planters
Mechanics
Manufacturers and Inventors
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents