Scientific American Magazine Vol 21 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 21, Issue 9

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Features

Improvement in Shingle Machines, The Dangers of Ballooning

Plass' Patent Safety Band-Saw

The Early American Improvements in Printing Presses

A Siphon for Draining a Tunnel

Suspension Bridge over the Missouri River

Restoration of Persons Apparently Dead from Drowning

Premature Burial—Its Probabilities

A Good Piece of Engineering

The Relation of the Diameters of Gearing to Friction

The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad

The Removal of the Tariff on Coal

The Law of Hydrostatic Pressure

The Solar Eclipse

The Light Hydrocarbons

The Proposed Tunnel Under the British Channel

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Answers to Correspondents

Official List of Patents

Issued by the United States Patent Office

New Publications

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal