Scientific American, New York, May 21, 1895., Volume LXXII,, No. 4

New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1895. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Folio (16 ¼" x 11 ¼"); pp322-336; illustrated wrapper; 3" split at tail of wrapper fold, chipping to bottom edge, hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry and Manufactures. Contents include: The New American Yacht The Defender; Electric Lighting and Heating; Meal of Sunflower Cake; Spectroscopic Observations of Saturn at the Allegheny Observatory; A Wax Found in Cotton and Linen Fiber; Anthion-A New Agent for Quickly Washing the Hypo from Prints; Daniel Webster on the Great West; Electrolytical Process of Bleaching; A Heating Drum in the Smoke Pipe; Felden's Finger Exercising Device; Making a Newspaper; Honrath's Elastic Tire; Improved Faucet for Basins and Sinks [Byrne's]; Schmitt's Life Line Throwing Apparatus; A New Italian Lake; Fires Caused by Incandescent Lamps; Sleepy Grass [New Mexico]; Suspended Railway Systems; Bilge Keels; Sporting Oxen and Buffaloes; English Locomotive Cabs; the Toothpick Industry; Photography; Columbia College Library; Protecting the Pipes Near Electric Railways from Electrolytic Action [Watkin's Method]; Wilson's Stump Puller; and Index of Inventions.