Scientific American Magazine Vol 21 Issue 7

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 21, Issue 7

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Features

Shaw's Gunpowder Hammer for Driving Piles, Remarkable Mirage in the English Channel

Improved Cork Extractor

Facts Concerning the Sun

Light

A Fish Farm

E. Dexter

Indelible Ink for Marking Linen

Reimann

Working Out and Patenting New Inventions

When Doctors Disagree Who shall Decide?

The Indiscriminate Use of Fireworks

An Arrant Humbug

Chinese Labor in America

Prediction of Weather

The Theory of Boiling—Tomlinson's Experiments and Conclusions

The Odoriferous Principles of Plants—And their Imitations—Fusel Oil

Bridge Across the British Channel

Important Patent Decision

Answers to Correspondents

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Official List of Patents

New Publications

Applications for Extension of Patents

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal