Scientific American Magazine Vol 4 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 4, Issue 2

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Features

The Fate of a Canal

The Snow Drop the Poor Man's Window

Reduction of Fares

Reprehensible Conduct

The Telegraph

Accidents by Railroad

New Propeller

Rail Road News

N. Y. and Erie Railroad

Theft on an Ancient Manuscript

Drunkenness Among the Hindoos

Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts

Pencils

The Census of France

An Interesting Relic

A Metropolis of Monkies

Bogardus Flour Mill

Morse's Air Distributor, for Burning Sawdust. Tan, Fine Coal Dust, and Refuse Fuel

Hints to Gas Consumers

Potatoe Cheese

A Noble Act Handsomely Acknowledged

A New Suspension Bridge

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Cholera Liquid

British

Microscopic Discoveries

Incrustations in Steam Boilers

New War Engine

List of Patents

Novel Mode of Propelling Steamboats

Coke Versus Dlamond.--An Important Discovery

Dodge's Balance Pump

Improvements in Wrought Iron

An Old Revolver

Chloroform a Substitute for Steam

Double Headed and Pointed Finishing Brad

Important Patent Cases.--Morse vs. O'Reilly

Please Send Me the First Half of Vol. 3

What Our Contemporaries Think of Us

The Scientific American

Infringement of a Patent for a Machine to Saw Irregular Shapes

Scientific Associations

The Miners of Pennsylvania

The Best Form for Strength

Sculpture and Monuments

Reduction in the Price of Gas

Oat Meal

Origin of the Electric Telegraph

Action

The Wild Man

On Patent Laws.--Selling Before the Issue of a Patent

Cause of Dark Color of the Skin

A Great Mechanic Gone

History of the Rotary Engine

Prepared expressly for the Scientific American

An Excellent Plan for Preparing Glue

To Weld Iron, Steel and Sheet Iron

New Chemical Law

The Best Mechanical Paper

In the World Fourth Year of the Scientific American

Artificial Eyes for Horses

Priming for Percussion Guns

Departments

Foreign Correspondence

Holden's Dollar Magazine

To Correspondents