Scientific American Magazine Vol 17 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 17, Issue 6

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Features

Improvement in Steam Generators

American Machines at the Paris Exposition

Lunkenheimer's Tallow Lubricator

What Are the Tails of Comets Made of

Great Guns and Breech-Loading Fire-Arms

Weber's Safety Pocketbook

Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items

Extension Notices

Value of Advertising--Its Importance, and How to Do it

Editorial Summary

Recent American and Foreign Patents

New Publications

Answers to Correspondents

Bellerjeau's Improved Lamp Chimney

The Nuisance of Steam Whistles

Bridging of Navigable Rivers

The Commisioner of Patents--His Incompetency and Mismanagement

Discomforts of Railroad Traveling

The Silver Palace Cars

Science Familiarly Illustrated

Greenwich Time

Official Report of Patents and Claims

Patent Office Decision--Method of Numbering Coupons, Etc.

Departments

Correspondence

Business and Personal