Scientific American Magazine Vol 19 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 19, Issue 20

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Features

Patent Steam Engine Governor, Road Making by Steam

On a “Piece of Chalk”.--A Lecture to Workingmen

The Best Modes of Testing the Power and Economy of Steam Engines

Charles E. Emery

Hancock's Screw Propeller

Testing the Power of Steam Engines

The Natural and the Artificial

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Speed of Railway Trains

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Editorial Summary

New Publication

Answers to Correspondents

“Gold! Gold! Hard to Get and Heavy to Hold.”

Comparison and Relation the Only Criterion of Size

Caveats

Expansion of Ice

European Patents

Self Education

Transportation of Cattle--Reid's Patent Cattle Wagons

New Mexico, Its Natural Wealth

On a Probable Connection Between the Resistance of Ships and Their Mean Depth of Immersion

W. J. Macquorn Rankine

Patents and Claims

Issued by the United States Patent Office

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal