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Features
Milk of Almonds for the Complexion
Portland and Vicksburg Railroad
Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad
Improved Grain Cleaning Machine
Fig Pie
Violet Powder
To Make Good Brown Bread
The Introduction of Carrige Making in Newark, New Jersey
Provisions for Field Hands
Substitute for Blowing Rocks
The Calhoun Statue
A Cave Discovered at Sharon
Col Hamilton's Mode of Cultivating Cotton
Valuable Invention
Foreign Correspondence
Origin of the Words Blanket, Worsted, Kerseymere and Linsey Woolsey
Water Versus Steam Power
The Expected Great Comet
Hooped Ships
Electro Magnetism as a Motive Power
Larkin's Improvement in Augur Handles
Van Anden's Patent Rail Chair
Improved Lathe Machine
Improvement in the Flax Manufacture
Terra Cotta
Gas from Water
Balloon Railway
A Self-Acting Saw Mill
Ohio State Fair
Impostor—Look Out
Cooking by Gas
Water Telescope
Experiments in Aerostation
The Hydrogen Gas Light
Restoring and Preserving the Sight
Large Steam Hammers
More About the Electric Water Light
Meteoric Shower
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Coal Formations
Lake Superior Copper
The Industrial Exhibition of 1850
List of Patent Claims
Patent Claims
Back Volumes Scientific American
Important Notice to Us
History of Propeller and Steam Navigation
Spirits of Turpentine a Cure for Poison
New Prospectus of The Scientific American
Experiments with Metals
Egyptian Superstitions
Flemish Lace Makers and Lace Making
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To All Whom It May Concern
Erratum
To Correspondents