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Volume 5, Issue 39You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Pennsylvania Railroad
How to Exterminate Roaches
Bellefontalne and Indiana Railway
To Kill Rats
To Get Rid of Grain Weevils
New Route to California
Cure for Cancer
Cracker and Biscuit Rolling and Cutting Machine
Pacific Rail Road
Cave in California
Prospects of the Wool Trade for 1850
Old Rice
The Census Law for 1850
Old Tan Bark
Stone Cavalry
The Descendants of Robert Burns
Western Giants
Steamboat Boilers
Subterranean Lake at Lancaster
Charcoal for Cisterns
Liquid Gold
Parsnips for Pigs
Death from a Pin
Destitution in Glasgow, Scotland
Indestructibility of Enjoyment
Telegraph Profits
Colonel Fremont
Death of a Great Man
Maryland Institute
The Atlantic
Philosophy of Mechanics
Table of the Board Measure of Logs
The Patent Office and Reform of the Patent Laws
The Use of Oxide of Zinc is not Injurious to Health
Improvement on Hanging Brakes for Railroad Cars and other Machinery
Ingram's Improved Water Closet
New Kind of Black Ink
Proposed New Description of Railway
Chromatype
Self-Adjusting Churn
Oil Stone
Tight Pantaloons and Tobacco
New Serving Mallet for Riggers
Patent Case—India Rubber Pontoon Boat
Propeller Improvements
New American Coins
Splendid Present
Light and its Effects—Gothic Churches
Perspiration
The Solvent Properties of Caloric, Similar to Acid Gases
List of Patent Claims
John Bull Turning Yankee
Inventors and Mechanics
Accoustics
History of Propellers and Steam Navigation
Petrification
Mathematics of Bees
Divisibility of Matter
Useful Statistics
Departments
Important Notice To Us!
To Correspondents