Scientific American Magazine Vol 13 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 13, Issue 12

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Features

An American-built Russian Corvette Launched

Iron Wire Rope

Dolson's Feed for Paint Mills

Rifled Cannon Ball

Gunpowder

Boiler Explosion

The Orders of Architecture

Turmeric

Hemp Cutter

Preventing Cars from Running off Railroad Tracks

Signal Apparatus

Printing Presses

Drilling Machine

New Fire-Engine Trial

The Distribution of Heat

Water Heated by Friction

Hemp Brake

How Coal is Sold in London

Sawing Felloes

Lime Kiln

Corn Husker

Machine for Cleaning Casks

Andrus' Feed for Sewing Machines

Getting Better

Improved Method of Treating Iron Ores

The Commissioner's Decision on the Policeman's Club

Steamship Vanderbilt

Messenger and Rehahn's Barrel Cooler

Arrival of the Frigate Niagara

Improved Diving Bell

Fuels, Mineral and Vegetable

Motion and Motors

American Cotton and its Present Interests

Indemnity to the Widow of an American Inventor

Trial Trip of the Adriatic

The Sorghum Sugar Question

Improved Method of Bleaching Straw Hats

Tears

Mosquito Tobacco

Genius and Labor

Attempted Launch of the Great Eastern

Correspondents - November 28, 1857

Electrical Illumination

The Use of Bones

Mechanics

Inventors, Manufacturers and Farmers

Halos

New Anesthetic Agents

Photographing on Wood

Parachute for Mines

Creosote a Cure for Dysentery

Wild Silk

Railway Accidents and a Uniform Speed

“Big Ben”

Mortar

How to Harden Gypsum

Nicotine

A Chimney

Scriptural Statistics

Departments

Acknowledgment