Scientific American Magazine Vol 21 Issue 21

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 21, Issue 21

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Features

Improved Portable Steam Brick Machine, Work for Women

Terrestrial Magnetism

The Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid

Aerial Navigation

Winkelhouse's Improved Bit Holder

Ault's Improved Candle Holder and Grease Cup

On the Nature of the Aurora Borealis

Vander Weyde

Stevens' Patent Hand Vise

Massey's Patent Low Water Detector and Gage Cock Combined, and High and Low Water Detector

Report of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institute

Solar Spots

The Protection of Property

The Rational Construction of Hospitals

The Extension of Patents

The Crack of Doom

The Nottingham Knitting Machine, and Gadd & Moore's Improved One Shaft Loom

On Experiments with Dynamite

Report of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Obituary.—George Peabody

The Highest Prize Awarded at the American Institute

Wood-Paper Manufacturing Case

H. S. Patent Office

Recent American and Foreign Patents

New Publications

Official List of Patents

Answers to Correspondents

Applications for Extension of Patents

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal