Scientific American Magazine Vol 17 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 17, Issue 20

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Features

Hindman's Patent Husking Palm

Improved Coupling and Cold Rolled Shafting

Pease's Oils at the Recent Fair

The Manufacture of Paraffine

The American Institute Fair

How Gun-Cotton Is Made

Editorial Summary

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Answers to Correspondents

Taber's Improved Sink Trap

The Useful Mechanic

The Inventor--Some of the Obstacles to his Success

Bad Workmanship in Steam Boilers

Ordnance at the Exposition

Plating or Coating Metals with Metals

Official Report of Patents and Claims

Steam Fire Engines and the Petroleum Fuel

New Publications

Extension Notice

Departments

Editorial Correspondence

Business and Personal

Patents