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John Huber and Henry Snell, Girard, Ill.--This machine may be used simply for stirring up and turning the hay, or for turning the hay and gathering it into windrows. The shaft o...
2. Chapter 2Two kinds of structures would meet the first demand--massive pyramids of covered earth or of solid masonry, or chambers hewn from the heart of some granitic hill. In low latitud...
3. Chapter 3M. Wetli's invention, as we have described it, was placed between Woedensweil and Einsiedlen, Switzerland. The difference in altitude between these points is 1,513 feet, the dis...
5. Chapter 5The number of applications for patents was a little less than during the previous year. The Commissioner suggests that Congress should appropriate $50,000 to promote the printin...
6. Chapter 6One of those odd geniuses, who spend their lives and means in collecting curious and rare articles, lately died. His name was Sylvester Bonaffon, a retired merchant of Philadelp...
7. Chapter 7There is nothing more reassuring in these days, when new "isms" of the scientists are slowly sapping the foundations of cherished beliefs, than to remember that, after all, the...
4. Chapter 4These extracts would not be out of place in an explanatory lecture or essay on woodcutting at the present day, and cannot help awakening surprise that they should have been writ...
1. Chapter 1Clubs.--One extra copy of THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN will be supplied gratis for every club of five subscribers at $3.20 each; additional copies at same proportionate rate. Postage...
11. Chapter 11We are now receiving and keeping in stock the most important ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC BOOKS as they are published, and are prepared to furnish them or to give information...
10. Chapter 10Abdominal corset, C. Lascell 186,258 Acoustic telegraph, T.A. Edison 186,330 Advertising card, H. Mahler 186,209 Air compressor, J. Clayton 186,306 Air compressor, W.F. Garrison...
9. Chapter 9(6) A.J.S. asks: What is the best plan for putting up a cheap dry house of lumber, for drying (by steam) white oak, hickory, and other lumber used in wagon and buggy making? A....
12. Chapter 12MACHINERY OF IMPROVED STYLES FOR making SHINGLES, HEADING and STAVES; also GUAGE LATHES for TURNING HANDLES. Sole makers of Law's Pat. Shingle and Heading Sawing Machine. Addres...