Scientific American Magazine
Volume 13, Issue 14You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
New Decolorizing Agent
Darby & Young's Planing Machine
Professor Rogers on English Coal
How Wine is Made in California
Printing Press
Descriptive Index to Chemical Patents
Rock Drill
Bole Armenia
Steel Plow
To Avoid Sneezing
Bail for Millstones
Fire Kindling Composition
The Purple of Cassius
Workbox and Escritoir
Speed Indicator and Governor
Improved Snow Plow
A Few Words about Ourselves
Watchmaking
Valuable Discovery
Improved Railroad Chair
Artificial Legs
The Steamship Central America
Iron Planes for California
Light and Color
Polishing Glass, Metal, & C
Three Weeks more and the Result will be Settled
Gun Cotton and Collodion
Ores
What Causes Vibrations in Dams?
Fluid Pressure
Apparatus for Illuminating Objects under Water
The Victoria Tubular Bridge
Paper Impervious to Water
Mechanics
Heat in the Water of Pumps
Apparatus for Heating Fluids
Instinct
Departments
Letters with Diagrams
Correspondents - December 12, 1857