Scientific American Magazine Vol 17 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 17, Issue 9

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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