Scientific American Magazine
Volume 17, Issue 12You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Improved Device for Actuating the Shuttle and Needle in Sewing Machines, Autumnal Diseases
The Exposition
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dynamometers at the Paris Exhibition
Watches at the Exposition
Gould's Stopple for Soda-Water Bottles
Science Familiarly Illustrated
Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items
Malleable Cast Iron
Recent American and Foreign Patents
Answers to Correspondents
Harris' Double Needle for Sewing Machines
Totten and Topliff's Can Opening Knife
California Silk
Cox and Hill's Window Shade Attachment
Speed of the 15-Inch Shot
Progress of the Pneumatic Railroad
The Water Supply of London--Decrease of Rain Fall, and Pollution of Streams
Patents and Claims
Pending Applications for Reissues
Departments
Business and Personal
Patents
