Scientific American Magazine
Volume 1, Issue 4You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Improved Sugar Mill
Bethel's Process for Preserving Wood
The Foundations of Houses
Preserving and Coloring Wood and Marble
Drains and Cesspools
Wood-Bending
Discoveries Concerning the Nebul
Fish Chutes for Dams
Novel Air Pump
Mechanical Horse-Tamer
Plating on Iron
Diamonds in the Arts
The Pleasures of Knowledge
Atmospheric Electricity as a Motor
Questions About Heat
To Make Butter in Five Minutes Without a Churn
The Swing as a Cure for Consumption
Aluminum-Bronze for Axle Boxes
Coal Formations of North America
Summer Sours
Landry's Railroad Chair
Death of Rufus Choate
Balloons in Warfare
Important to Gardeners
Agricultural Chemistry
What is the Jonval Turbine?
Uniform Musical Pitch
“In Hosts They Come in Legions March Away”
Cork Trees in California
Improved Turbine Wheel
Garrett's Cotton Seed Planter
Cheap Sewing Machines Wanted in Germany
Experiments with Screw Propellers
The Fathers of Philosophy--IV
The Collins Steamers
American Association for the Advancement of Science
A New Mode of Shoring
A Self-Supporting Bracket
Foreign Summary--Metals and Markets
Mineral Oils
Patent Claims
Pleasant Drinks
Low Water Indicator
Departments
New Inventions
Notes and Queries