Scientific American Magazine Vol 1 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 1, Issue 4

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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