Scientific American, December 8, 1855. Photographic lithographs, windmills, etc

Features

Coffee Leaf as a Beverage

The Gasconade Bridge Disaster

Improvement in the Telegraph

Brine a Poison

Saltpeter is King

Floating Logs

Casting of the Horse for the Washington Monument

Yampert's Pump

The Green Lakes of Onondaga

Explosion of a Locomotive

Orange and Pink Color on Silk

Present to an Inventor

The Climate for Consumptive Persons

The Albany Observatory

Public Clocks

On the Purchasing of Machinery

A Pamphlet on Boiler Explosions

The Ignition Engine

Oscillating Locomotives--Lap of the Valve

Creative Power of a Mechanic

Railroad Car Patent Case

Marble Sawing Machine

Hays' Patent Lard Lamp

Reform of Patent Laws.--Important Meeting of Inventors at Buffalo, N. Y

One and Two Cylinder Engines

Rejected Models

Seymour's Sewing Machine for Shoes

Value of Mechanics in Australia

The Discovery of Making Shot

British Association for the Advancement of Science.--No. 2

Three Masted Schooners

Lead and Iron Pipes

Blackening for Foundries

Are the Position of Countries Changing ?

Proposition to Convert the Ohio River into a Slack Water Canal

Alumina in Soapatone