Scientific American Magazine Vol 18 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 18, Issue 14

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Features

Improvement in Corn-Shelling Machines, Iron and Chromium and Chromium Steel

Davenport's Patent Low Water Alarm

Editorial Correspondence

Heat and Cold

John Tyndall

Cole's Method of Raising Water

Compound Baths for Hardening Steel

Improved Device for Oiling Loose Pulleys and Gears

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Zwiebel's Improved Universal Joint

Answers to Correspondents

Recent American and Foreign Patents

The Distribution of Sodium in Nature and the Value of its Compounds as Manure

Explosive Oils--Kerosene and its Imitations-- Dangerous Compounds

Proposed Reduction of Patent Fees

The Blowpipe--Its Uses

Adhesion of Leather Belts to Cast Iron Pulleys

Platinum and Platinizing Metals

Patents and Claims

Issued by the United States Patent Office

1868 Scientific American the Best Paper in the World

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal