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Scientific American ;, a weekly journal of practical information, art, science, mechanics, chemistry, and manufactures. Vol. 70, no.14, April 7, 1894

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Scientific American ;

a weekly journal of practical information, art, science, mechanics, chemistry, and manufactures. Vol. 70, no.14, April 7, 1894

The annual report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1893 --Prevention better than cure --The utilization of garbage --Steering by telephone --Sugar items --Testing twelve-inch shot --Mercurial soap for cholera --An improved wrench --Lime juice for scurvy --Deep sea fish --The Baltimore Traction Company --A heating gas burner --Quadruple birth --Friedburg's bunsen burner --Reid's "lightning brace" --Steam tramcars with Serpollet's boiler --Artificial glaciers --Limestone made into marble --Improved journal box supports --Long distance transmission of steam --Our exports of ferro-manganese --Origin of the dollar mark - five theories --Carborundum --A new system of fishing --Maintaining streets without and with car tracks --Waterproof cellars --A practical steam stamp mill --An important patent suit --The system of Algol --A very high windmill --Repairing foundations --African diamonds --Decision on pipe cutters --The Arizona camels --Wool dyeing: its principles and practice --Hairy people of Ainu, Japan --The application of chemistry to tanning --The first photographer --American coal in Mexico --Manufacture of smoking tobacco --Aids to longevity --The navies of England, France and Russia --Recently patented inventions --Index of inventions for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted March 27, 1894 and each bearing that date