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Features
Whitney's Railroad to the Pacific
New Coloring Matter
Jackson's Patent Cooking Stove
First Railroad Charter in America
Bevan's Patent Arch Girder
Causes of Rain
Oxygen Gas a Cure for Cholera
The Cocoanut of Jamaica
Turkish Manners
The Route to California through Nicaragua
Death of a Great Inventor
Death of an Eminent Sculptor
Great Speed on the Utica and Schenectady Railroad
Accidents by Lightning
Telegraph and Newspaper Dinner
A Dangerous Rock
City Improvements
Sugar in France
Parker's Water Wheel
The Benefits of Coffee as an Article of Food
The Mechanical Labor on a Newspaper
Handling Molten Lead and Iron
Philips' Fire Annihilator
Ink for Lithographers
Ink that Resists the Action of Acids and Alkalies
Report of the Scientific Committee to Investigate Paie's Light
Disinfecting Compound
Improvement in Making Bricks
Glass Water Pipes
A New Wonder
Transfer Paper
New Old Planing Machine
Glasgow
Light and Heat from Water
Meanness Carried to Extremes
Great Building—Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations
Chemical Philosophy
Why Epidemics Rage at Night
List of Patent Claims
Back Volumes Scientific American
New Agents for the Scientific American
An Improved Straw Cutter
To Inventors and Mechanics
History of Propellers and Steam Navigation
Lightning and Lightning Conductors
Curious Facts in Natural History
Departments
Important Notice To Us!
To Correspondents