Scientific American Magazine Vol 20 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 20, Issue 4

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Features

American Iron and Steel--Pittsburgh, the Iron City

The African Interior

P. B. Du Chaillu

News for Mechanics

M'Master's Patent Clothes Line Holder

West Spruce St. Baptist Church, Philadelphia

The Heaton-Bessemer Correspondence

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Bureau of Naval Engineering--Some Hard Facts

Answers to Correspondents

Emery Wheels--How They Should be Made

Summary of the Velocipede

Increasing the Power of Steam by Superheating

American Beet Root Sugar

Patent Office Contracts

Do Laboring Men Have Time to Study?

The Philosophy of the Oven

Reported for the Scientific American

Improvement in Finishing Pictures

A New Register for Business Men

Editorial Summary

New Publications

Mechanical Skill of Savages

Economical and Simple Heater for Steam Boilers

Recent America and Foreign Patents

Official List of Patents

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal