Scientific American Magazine Vol 20 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 20, Issue 8

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Features

Combined Power-Lifting and Forcing Pumps

The Ellershausen Process of Manufacturing Iron

How Common Window Glass is Made

Inventor of Stereotyping—William Ged

Lecture on the Spectroscope

The Therapeutics of Wakefulness

Modern Wrenches and Their Antecedents

Bicknell's Patent American Window Weight Pulley

Velocipede Notes

Chemical Invention

How Workingmen May Obtain Facilities for Intellectual Improvement

How Contracts are Awarded—Gross Frauds in the Patent Office

Cheese and Nuts

Modern Musical Instruments

Transfusion of Blood

Editorial Summary

“Waste” and “Economy” of Fuel

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Steam Pump Valves

Important Decision under the Patent Laws

Answers to Correspondents

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

New Publications

Official List of Patents

European Patents

Patent Offices

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal