Scientific American Magazine Vol 11 Issue 32

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 11, Issue 32

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Features

Red Granite

Improvement in Scales for Weighing

Bituminous and Anthracite Coal for Boilers

Plaster and Ammonia

Falling Bodies

A Great Artesian Well

Press for Hay, Cotton, &C

Extension of a Patent

Dressing Saws

Dangerous Hair Dyes

List of Patent Claims

Advice to Electrotypers

The Inventor of the Steam Fire Engine Boiler

Treating Timber to Make it Durable

The Best Form of Sailing Vessels

Combined Steam and Ether Engines

To Prevent Ships Sinking at Sea

Prunes

Falling Water--Form of the Oriflce--Water Wheels

Useful Suggestion

New Measuring Instrument

A Hot Air Locomotive

Improved Method of Connecting Doors

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Launch of the Steamship Adriatic

Canal Across the Isthmus of Suez

The Steamer New Jersey

Mechanics Festival

Recent Foreign Inventions

The Architecture of Cast Iron

Recent American Patents

Silver and its Uses.--Concluded

Railroads; Speed: Grades, and Curves

Notes on Ancient and Curious Inventions.--No. 3

Important Items

Improved Locomotive Link Motion

Cobalt and Nickel

Departments

To Correspondents