Scientific American, June 14, 1856. Foucault - Motion and Heat; Ballooning, etc

Features

Sharpe's Rifles for England

Motion and Heat

Improved Force and Lift Pump

Gold Quartz Factories

Salt

Disinfecting Agents

Lake Phenomena

List of Patent Claims

The Great Yacht Race

Ancient Ruins--Coal

Ascent of Balloons

Cowperthwaite's Patent Hydrant

Brakes to Fire Engines

Venetian Glass--How They Make Beads

Material for Roofing Buildings

Improved Bevel Plane

New Tidal Flood Gate

Recent Foreign Inventions

Engravings

Recent American Patents

Notes on Ancient and Curious Inventions--No.9

Telegraph Improvements

The Press on the New Patent Bill

American Steamboat Engines for the Danube

Curious Instinct of Plants

Who First Employed Anthracite Coal in Smelting Iron

Perpetual Almanac

Important Items

Mechanics

Form of the Earth

Improved Stump Puller

Gold Coinage

Improved Ventilation of Ships

Does the Moon Rotate

Fish Eggs

New Mowing Machine

Departments

To Correspondents