Scientific American Magazine Vol 12 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 12, Issue 1

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Features

A Prairie Steam Plow

Trial of Reaping Machines in England

Tunnel through the Green Mountains

Standing Tree Cutter

The Expected Comet

Improved Sad Iron

Russian Rails

Crops in Europe

New Lighthouse

August Storms

Robert Fulton

Making Watches in Switzerland

Improvements in San Francisco

Barometers

Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Main Springs of Watches

Preserving Timber

Coal Burning Locomotives

Magnetism of Railroad Rails

Spontaneous Combustion.--Valuable Warning

Improved Nautical Instrument

Franklin Institute Exhibition

The Scientific American

Ice by Machinery

Revenue of British Railroads

Improvement in Carriages

Improved Drawing Instruments

Expenses of Railroads

Our New Volume

Our Prizes

Recent American Patents

Scientific Ladies.--Experiments with Condensed Gases

To Our Correspondents

Manufacture of Malleable Iron without Fuel

Large and Small Steamers and Sea Sickness

The Quickest Atlantic Voyage

The Merrimac's Boilers

A Guano Island Non Est Inventus

Recent Foreign Inventions

Fair of the American Institute

Important Items

English Patents

Prospectos

Experiments with the Chinese Sugar Cane

Photographic Bank Notes

Cultivation of American Indigo