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Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878
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- Scientific American
- THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—A SKETCH IN THE PARK.
- Improvements in Silk Worm Breeding.
- The Natural History of the Eel.
- PROGRESS OF IRON MAKING.
- THE TELEPHONE AS A PROMOTER OF SCIENCE.
- LETTER FROM PROFESSOR HUGHES.
- THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN EXPORT EDITION.
- FOUNTAIN PENS.
- THE SUN.
- MECHANICAL PUDDLING IN SWEDEN.
- Photographic Engraving.
- A NEW DEEP SEA THERMOMETER.
- New Inventions.
- [Communications.]
- Our Patent Law.
- The Edison Carbon Telephone and Hughes' Microphone.
- New Industrial Enterprises.
- Replanting and Transplanting Teeth.
- American Institute Exhibition.
- THE DISTILLATION OF COAL.
- A Short History of Petroleum.
- Minute Forms of Life.
- Wages in England.
- The Treatment of Cancer by Pressure.
- NEW CUTTING AND BORING ATTACHMENT FOR LATHES.
- Decrease of the New York Rainfall.
- NEW STEAM VALVE.
- A Hint from the Mormons.
- New Agricultural Inventions.
- Quick Work.
- THE RHINOCEROS HORNBILL.
- Saw Tempering by Natural Gas.
- THE JAPANESE BUILDING AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
- Machinery for New York State Capitol Building.
- The Explosiveness of Flour.
- New Engineering Inventions.
- CROOKED JOURNALISM.
- A More Perfect Production.
- The Wool Product of the World.
- Street Main Joints.
- Successful Shad Hatching.
- New Use for Lemon Verbena.
- A VELOCIPEDE FEAT EXTRAORDINARY.
- Superior Excellence of American Goods.
- Petroleum Oils as Lubricators.
- Influence of Light on Plants and Animals.
- New Mechanical Inventions.
- Ill-balanced Production.
- Labor in Germany.
- Petroleum June Review.
- Remarkable Poisoning of a Lake.
- ASTRONOMICAL NOTES.
- REMARKS
- REMARKS
- An Interesting Astronomical Observation.
- Some of Professor Marsh's Recent Discoveries.
- Trying to Save a Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars a Year.
- Industrial Education.
- NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
- COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED.
- INDEX OF INVENTIONS
- TRADE MARKS.
- DESIGNS.
- English Patents Issued to Americans.
- [The Scientific American EXPORT EDITION.]
- GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- Advertisements.
- Advertisements.
- FOOTNOTE:
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