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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 787




NEW YORK, January 31, 1891

Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XXXI., No. 787.

Scientific American established 1845

Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year.

Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


I. BIOGRAPHY.--CHARLES GOODYEAR.--The life and discoveries of
the inventor of vulcanized India rubber, with portrait.--1