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Scientific American, Vol. 39, No. 6 August 10, 1878

Scientific American, Vol. 39, No. 6 August 10, 1878

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Author
Various
Title
Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.—No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878
Credits
Produced by Colin M. Kendall, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
T: Technology
Subject
Technology -- Periodicals
Category
Text
eBook-No.
43282
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43282
Release Date
July 22, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Scientific American
  2. 2.THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—A SKETCH IN THE PARK.
  3. 3.Improvements in Silk Worm Breeding.
  4. 4.The Natural History of the Eel.
  5. 5.PROGRESS OF IRON MAKING.
  6. 6.THE TELEPHONE AS A PROMOTER OF SCIENCE.
  7. 7.LETTER FROM PROFESSOR HUGHES.
  8. 8.THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN EXPORT EDITION.
  9. 9.FOUNTAIN PENS.
  10. 10.THE SUN.
  11. 11.MECHANICAL PUDDLING IN SWEDEN.
  12. 12.Photographic Engraving.
  13. 13.A NEW DEEP SEA THERMOMETER.
  14. 14.New Inventions.
  15. 15.[Communications.] — Our Patent Law. — The Edison Carbon Telephone and Hughes' Microphone.
  16. 16.New Industrial Enterprises.
  17. 17.Replanting and Transplanting Teeth.
  18. 18.American Institute Exhibition.
  19. 19.THE DISTILLATION OF COAL.
  20. 20.A Short History of Petroleum.
  21. 21.Minute Forms of Life.
  22. 22.Wages in England.
  23. 23.The Treatment of Cancer by Pressure.
  24. 24.NEW CUTTING AND BORING ATTACHMENT FOR LATHES.
  25. 25.Decrease of the New York Rainfall.
  26. 26.NEW STEAM VALVE.
  27. 27.A Hint from the Mormons.
  28. 28.New Agricultural Inventions.
  29. 29.Quick Work.
  30. 30.THE RHINOCEROS HORNBILL.
  31. 31.Saw Tempering by Natural Gas.
  32. 32.THE JAPANESE BUILDING AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
  33. 33.Machinery for New York State Capitol Building.
  34. 34.The Explosiveness of Flour.
  35. 35.New Engineering Inventions.
  36. 36.CROOKED JOURNALISM.
  37. 37.A More Perfect Production.
  38. 38.The Wool Product of the World.
  39. 39.Street Main Joints.
  40. 40.Successful Shad Hatching.
  41. 41.New Use for Lemon Verbena.
  42. 42.A VELOCIPEDE FEAT EXTRAORDINARY.
  43. 43.Superior Excellence of American Goods.
  44. 44.Petroleum Oils as Lubricators.
  45. 45.Influence of Light on Plants and Animals.
  46. 46.New Mechanical Inventions.
  47. 47.Ill-balanced Production.
  48. 48.Labor in Germany.
  49. 49.Petroleum June Review.
  50. 50.Remarkable Poisoning of a Lake.
  51. 51.ASTRONOMICAL NOTES.
  52. 52.REMARKS — REMARKS
  53. 53.An Interesting Astronomical Observation.
  54. 54.Some of Professor Marsh's Recent Discoveries.
  55. 55.Trying to Save a Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars a Year.
  56. 56.Industrial Education.
  57. 57.NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
  58. 58.COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED.
  59. 59.INDEX OF INVENTIONS — TRADE MARKS. — DESIGNS.
  60. 60.English Patents Issued to Americans.
  61. 61.[The Scientific American EXPORT EDITION.] — GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  62. 62.Advertisements.
  63. 63.Advertisements.
  64. 64.FOOTNOTE:
  65. 65.Transcriber's Notes:

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