Scientific American Magazine Vol 12 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 12, Issue 18

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Features

Corn Husking Machine

Cable for the Atlantic Telegraph

Railway Festival

Losses by Fire in the United States

Ship Building at New York

Striking Effects of Civilization

Meteoric Iron Stones

The Ambrotype Art

Seeing Stars--A Deceptional Reflecting Telescope

Patent Cases in Congress--the Woodworth Planing Machine

Statuary for the Capitol

American Iron Manufacture

Natural Curiosities of New Zealand

More Camels

Merit Rewarded

Steam Engines for Grist Mills

Improvement in Constructing and Working of Locomotives

Experiments With the Chinese Sugar Millet

Experience With Ice Houses

Improved Saw Gummer

Improvement in Casters

The Compass on Iron Vessels

Wonderful New War Machine

Smith's Apple Parer

The Cohesive Power of Public Plunder

The Old Year and the New

Extended Patents--The Power of Congress

Sulphuret of Carbon

Annual Award of Prizes

Shot Towers--Manufacture of Shot

Progress of Australia

Aluminium Cheap as Iron

Original Recipes for Electro-Plating, Gilding and Brassing

Reform of Weights and Measures

Physiognomy--Noses

Snuff

Mechanics

Inventors, and Manufacturers

Carriage Springs

Total Eclipses For the Next Fifty Years

Printing Textiles by Light

Departments

Correspondents