The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-12-24
ILLUSTRATED
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
Tile Best Mechanical paper IN the World
EIGHTEENTH YEAR.
VOLUME VIIt.-NEW SERIES.

A new volume of this popular Journal COM
mences on the first of January. tits publish
ed weekly, and every number contains sixteen
pages eff useful information, and from five to
ten original engravingS Of new inventions and
discoveries, all of which are prepared ex-
pressly for its columns.
To the Mechanic and Manufacturer.-No
person engaged in any Of the mechanical OF
manufacturing pursuits should think OF ''do-
ing without" the Scientific American. II
costs but six cents per week; every number
contains from six to ten engravlngs OF new
machines and inventions, which cannot be
found in any other publication
To the Inventor-The Scientific American
is indispensable to every inventor, as it not
only contains illustrated descriptions of near
ly all the best inventions as they come out,
but each number contains an Official List OF
the Claims of all the Patents issued from the
United States Patent Office during the week
previous thus giving a correct history OF
the progress of invention in this country
We are also receiving the best Scientific jour
nails of Great BritiaI, France and Germany !;
thus placing in our possession all that is trans
piring in mechanical science and art in these
old countries. We shall continue to transfer
to our columns copious extracts from these
journals Of whatever we may deem of interest
to our readers.
\ pamphlet Of instructions as to the best
mode of obtaining Letters Patent on new in
ventions, is furnished free on application.
Messrs Mum 4 90. have acted as Patent
Solicitors for more than seventeen years, in
connection with the publication Of the Scien-
tiffic American, and they refer to 10000 pat
enteeS for whom they have done business.
No charge is made for examining sketches
and models of new inventions and for adyis-
ing inventors as to their patentabiliy.
Chemists, Architects, Millwrihgts and Far
merS.-The Scientific American will be found
a most useful journal to them. All the new
discoveries in the science of chemistry are
given in its columns, and the interests of the
architect and carpenter are not overlooked !;
all the new inventions and discoveries apper-
tanning to these pursuits being published from
week to week Useful and practical Informal
ton pertaining to the interests Of mlllwrights
and mill-owners will be found in the Scien-
tifc American, which information they can
not possibly obtain from any other source
Subjects in which farmers are interested will
be found discussed in the Scientific Ameri-
can; and most Of the improvements in agri-
cultural implements being Illustrated in its
columns
TERMS.-To mail subscribers: Three Doll
lars year, or One Dollar for four months
The volumes commence on the first of Janua-
ry and July. Specimen copies will be sent
gratis to any part of the country.
Western and Canadian money or Post-Ofiice
stamps taken at par for subscriptions Cana
dian subscribers will please to remit twenty
five cents extra on each years subscription to
prepay postage
MUM & CO., Publishers,
81 Park Row, n. Y.