Scientific American Magazine Vol 18 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 18, Issue 5

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Features

Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses, Silvering Glass Mirrors, and more

Apparatus for Determining the Amount of Alcohol in Fermented Liquors

Household Hints

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Use of Screw, Plates--Tempering Saws for Machinists' Use

Extension Notices

Answers to Correspondents

Wilders's Patent Punching Press

Cumbrousness of Tools for Iron Working

Inventors--Their Opportunities and Interests

Compressed Air as a Power

Nitro-Glycerin--Its use, Its Danger--Who Shall Decide when Experts Disagree?

The American Wood Paper Company and the Fiber Disintegrating Company

Official Report of Patent and Claims

Issued by the United States Patent Office

Pending Applications for Reissues

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal

Patents