Scientific American Magazine Vol 20 Issue 19

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 20, Issue 19

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Features

Improvement in Steam Hammers, Securing a Permanent Way, and more

Beet Root Sugar

Free Trade and Protection

Haskell's Portable Bookcase

Pallissard's Walking Support for Infants

A New Process for Determining the Comparative Value of White Lead

C. F. Chandler

Practical Suggestions on Tanning Leather

C. Gilpin

Editorial Summary

Improved Hinge and Door Stay

Improvement in Three-Wheeled Velocipedes

Vis Inertia

Centenary of the Steam Engine—James Watt

Employers and Employed

Habits of Mechanics

The Recent Auroral Display

The Relative Merits of New Iron and of Scrap Iron as Materials for the Shafts of Ocean Steamers

New Publications

Applications for the Extension of Patents

Answers to Correspondents

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Official List of Patents

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal