SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION, ART, SCIENCE, MECHANICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MANUFACTURES.
NEW YORK, JANUARY 1, 1870.
Vol. XXII.--No. 1. [NEW SERIES.]
$3 per Annum [IN ADVANCE.]
Contents: (Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.)
[*Engines of the Spanish Gunboats]
[The Torpedo Problem]
[Sugar Making in Louisiana]
[Sticking, or Court Plaster]
[*An Improved Hoisting Pulley Wanted]
[*Ferdinand De Lesseps--Chief Promoter of the Suez Canal]
[*An Ingenious Vent Peg]
[*A New English Patent Pulley Block]
[Plants in Sleeping Booms]
[*Improved Treadle Motion]
[*Improved Method of Catching Curculios]
[Remains of a Megatherium in Ohio]
[Artificial Ivory]
[American and English Kailway Practice Contrasted]
[Boiler Covering]
[Attachment of Saws to Swing Frames]
[Patent Decision]
[Inventions Patented in England by Americans]
[*Russ Improved Wood Molding Machine]
[A Lost Civilisation]
[*Girards "Palier Glissant"]
[A Happv New Year]
[The Suez Canal not yet a Failure]
[Tubular Boilers and Boiler Explosions]
[Professor Fiske's Lecture at Harvard]
[The Brighter Side]
[The American Institute Prizes Awarded to Steam Engines]
[A Protest against the Canadian Patent Law]
[American Railway Management]
[Scientific Lecture before the American Institute]
[The Battle Fields of Sceence]
[How French Bank Notes are Made]
[What the Newspapers Say]
[Chinese Method of Preserving Eggs]
[Steam Boiler Explosion]
[Editorial Summary]
[The Steven Breech Loading Rifle]
[* A Novel Improved Hand Vise]
[The Mound Builders of Colorado]
[*The Woven-Wire Mattress]
[Flouring Mill Hazards]
[Fire-Proof Building]
[The Decline of American Shipping]
[Aerial Navigation-A Suggestion]
[Putty Floors of Jewelers Shops and otherwise]
[Western Demand for Agricultural Implements]
[Economical Steam Engine]
[Friction and Percussion]
[Oiling a Preservative of Brownstone]
[Interesting Correspondence from China]
[Commumcation Between Deaf and Blind Mutes]
[Cheap Cotton Press Wanted]
[A Singular Freak of a Magnet]
[Preservation of Iron]
[The Bananas and Plantains of the Tropics]
[Putting Up Stoves]
[The Magic Lantern]
[The Largest well in the World--Capacity 1,000,000 gallons of water per Day]
[Paper for Building]
[*Improved Muzzle-Pivoting Gun]
[Stock Feeding by Clock Work]
[Milk and What Comes of It]
[*Improved Hay Elevator]
[*Improvement in Lamp Wicks]
[Great Transformation]
[Answers to Correspondents]
[Recent American and Foreign Patents]
[New Books and Publications]
[List of Patents]