Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871Front matterReading editionChapter navigation35 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterNEW YORK, MARCH 18, 1871.MUNN & CO., Editors and Proprietors.THE INFLUENCE OF INTENSE COLD ON STEEL AND IRON.OAK GRAINING IN OIL COLORS.KNOTS AND SPLICES.The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.Improved Compound Spiral Car Spring for Railway Carriages.PORTABLE WRITING AND COPYING CASE.How Walking Sticks are made.BOARDMAN'S COMBINED TOOL.BELT TIGHTENER.Some Things I don't want in the Building Trades.Crystallized Honey.RAMBLES FOR RELICS.SILK CULTURE.Universal Boring Machine.COMBINED TRUNK AND ROCKING CHAIR.Cosmetics.The Medicines of the Ancients.BARNES' VENTILATOR FOR MATTRESSES, ETC.A SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWAKENING.LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.WARMING AND VENTILATION OF RAILROAD CARS.THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF MISSOURI.SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.Unpleasant Discovery in the Patent Office—Levying Black Mail.NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.APPLICATIONS FOR EXTENSION OF PATENTS.INSTRUCTIONSInformation about Caveats, Extensions, Interferences, Designs, Trade-Marks, and Foreign Patents.MUNN & CO.,A SPECIAL EXAMINATIONInventions Patented in England by Americans.ISSUED BY THE U. S. PATENT OFFICE.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →NEW YORK, MARCH 18, 1871.All chapters and sections (35)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsNEW YORK, MARCH 18, 1871.MUNN & CO., Editors and Proprietors.THE INFLUENCE OF INTENSE COLD ON STEEL AND IRON.OAK GRAINING IN OIL COLORS.KNOTS AND SPLICES.The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.Improved Compound Spiral Car Spring for Railway Carriages.PORTABLE WRITING AND COPYING CASE.How Walking Sticks are made.BOARDMAN'S COMBINED TOOL.BELT TIGHTENER.Some Things I don't want in the Building Trades.Crystallized Honey.RAMBLES FOR RELICS.SILK CULTURE.Universal Boring Machine.COMBINED TRUNK AND ROCKING CHAIR.Cosmetics.The Medicines of the Ancients.BARNES' VENTILATOR FOR MATTRESSES, ETC.A SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWAKENING.LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.WARMING AND VENTILATION OF RAILROAD CARS.THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF MISSOURI.SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.Unpleasant Discovery in the Patent Office—Levying Black Mail.NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.APPLICATIONS FOR EXTENSION OF PATENTS.INSTRUCTIONSInformation about Caveats, Extensions, Interferences, Designs, Trade-Marks, and Foreign Patents.MUNN & CO.,A SPECIAL EXAMINATIONInventions Patented in England by Americans.ISSUED BY THE U. S. PATENT OFFICE.SCIENTIFIC AMERICANNEW YORK, MARCH 18, 1871. →