Features
Cutting Tools for Lathes
To the Editor of the Scientific American
Exhibition Notes
The Century Clock
James B. Eads, C.E., LL.D
New Atmospheric Hammer
Mr. Fletcher's Proposed Safety-Valve
Apparatus for Raising Sunken Vessels
Test Safety-Valve
Improvement in Car-Couplings
New Metallic Piston Packing
Improvement in Gas Engines
San Francisco to Liverpool in Sixteen Days
Chinese Suspension Bridges
Railways in Japan
Boracic Acid in Iron Ores
Cement Ornaments
The Rhododendron
Artificial Leather
Steam Street-Cars in Baltimore
New Lubricant
To Restore Soiled Steel Engravings
Chromeisen as a Substitute for Spiegeleisen
Manufacture of Dynamite
Sail-Boat Building
Salt as a Wood Preservative
The Oil of Wood
Cerium
Determination of Anthracen in Coal-Tar
Determination of Lithium by means of the Spectroscope
Chromate of Lead in Ham Coverings
Removing Tin from Scraps, Etc., by Electricity
The Absorption of Free Nitrogen and Hydrogen by Organic Substances
Number of Locomotives on English Railroads
Single-Rail Railway
Locomotives for the 18-In. Gauge
French Railways
Lessons in Mechanical Drawing
Gas Singeing Machine
New Electric Gas-Lighter
New Investigations on the Radiometer is it an Electric Engine?
Improved Rotary Boiler and Process for Making Paper Pulp
Blow-Pipe and Spectroscope for Mineralogists
The London Scientific Apparatus Exposition
Grubbs' Apparatus for Polishing Specula
Jupiter at his opposition, 1876
Astronomical Notes
Professor Huxley in America.—The Theory of Evolution
Third Lecture
