Scientific American, August 30, 1856. Michael Faraday on Silvering Glass; etc

Features

Chinese Artificial Breeding of Fish

The River Amoor

To Clean Light Colored Kid Gloves

Keeping Flies off Gilding

Improved Pliers

Improved Heater

Old Tanned Hides

Curious Experiment

List of Patent Claims

Gas on Steamboats

Mine Water for Boilers

One Cord of Wood on a Locomotive

Faraday on Silvering Glass

New Kind of Bread

New Old Paddle Wheels

Spontaneous Ignition of Sawdust

Recent Foreign Inventions

On Water Wheels

A Tall Chimney

Cheap Disinfectants

The Charter Oak Down

Improved Gas Stove

Blister Flies in Texas

Photograph of the Moon

Bad Barometers

New Lathe Chuck

Inspector's Report of the Explosion on the Empire State

Highly Important

Saving Fuel

Errors in Engineering

Recent American Patents

The Awzune--Explanation of Steam Boiler Explosions

American Association for the Advancement of Science--No. 1

Bronze Powder

Pavements and Health

Trial of Reaping Machines in France

Notes on Patented Inventions--No. 19

Important Items

To Correspondents

Prospectus

Mosaic Gold

A Manufacturer made a Peer

A Subterranean Reservoir

Improving Iron--Nickel

English Patents

A New African Grain

Clarifying Lard Oil for the Hair