Scientific American Magazine Vol 14 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 14, Issue 20

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Features

Improved Steam Gage

Power Required to Start a Train

Treatment of Cholera

Increase of Examiners' Pay

Elevated Railway for Streets

Frye's Buckle

Andrews & Burnham's Carpet Fastening

New Publications

Increased Tax Upon Inventors

Experiments with Nitro-Glycerin or Blasting Oil

Brown's Self-Closing Governor

Another Tax on Genius

Whistles as Signals on Trains

The Right Kind of a Grocery

Sodium Amalgam

Collapse of an English Boiler Flue

An Unpalatable Truth

The Third Lecture of Professor Doremus's Course

Patent Claims

Issued from the U. S. Patent Office

To Our Readers

Departments

Correspondence

New Inventions

Notes and Queries