Scientific American Magazine
Volume 17, Issue 9You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Setting Boilers--How to Set a Horizontal Stationary Boiler
Portable Distilling and Steaming Apparatus, A Veteran Soldier's Elixir
Marine Engines at the Exposition
Editorial Correspondence
Johnson's Universal Lathe Chuck
Shea's Patent Barrel and Tank
Editorial Summary
Forrest's Combination Car Wheel
Science Familiarly Illustrated
Recent American and Foreign Patents
Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items
Answers to Correspondents
New Publications
Extension Notices
Petroleum for Fuel
Original Inventors and Mechanical Improvers
Do Metals Grow
A Great Newspaper Establishment
Gunpowder--Its Material and Manufacture
The Fifteen-Inch Ball vs. Armor Plates
Official Report of Patents and Claims
Departments
Business and Personal