Scientific American July 5, 1856. Electro-Chemical Baths; New Steam Frigates etc

Features

Curious Experiment with Chalk

The New Steam Frigates

The Government Arms and their Manufacture

East India Railroads

Nebuchadnezzar Disentombed

Chemical Minuteness

Improved Cotton Press

Mercantile Library Association

Lightning and Epidemics

List of Patent Claims

Sandstones for Building

The Pressure of the Atmosphere

Electro-Chemical Baths

A Shoeing Stool for Blacksmiths

Notes on Patented Inventions.--No. 12

Great Submarine Cable

A Great Strike Ended

A Wonderful Discovery

Notice.--Erratum

Patent Fees

Straw Paper

Soda Water

American Marble

Chemical Analyses in the Patent Office

A New Field for Inventors.--The East Indies Thrown Open

Improvement in Spring Beds.

Shola

A New Life Raft

Improved Extension Table

Egyptian Alabaster

Recent American Patents

The Weather and its Signs

The Hughes Printing Telegraph

The Raining Tree

Crossing the Alps by Railroad.--American to Comotives in Austria, &c

Recent Foreign Inventions

Terms of Advertising

Literary Notices

Important to Inventors

To Correspondents

Important Items

Curious Crystals

A Cheap Red Fire

Sharpening Old Files with Acid

A Lightning Well Borer

Bronze Colors for Paper from Brazil-Wood and Logwood

Mechanics

Improved Music Book Rack

Maryland Artesian Wells

Composition of Human Milk

Washing Fine Woolen and Muslin Articles

Experiments on Digeston and with Poisons