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Volume 5, Issue 52You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Sweet's Patent Excavating Scraper
Gravity
New York and Erie Railroad
To Find the Tonnage of Ships
Cheap Railway Fares in England
The Present Cotton Crop
Rats for the Table
History and Construction of the Thermometer
The Floods of 1850
Quadrature of the Circle
List of Patent Claims
Magnetic Principles of the Solar System or Deductions from Experiments with the Solar Magnetic Engine and previously known Astronomical Truths
The Largest Grape-vine in The United States
India Rubber Flute
Variations of the Compass
Tapestry Velvet and Other Carpets
Improved Machinery for Grinding Spiral Knives
The Bakatlas of South Africa
Crank and Pully
Improvement on Steam Engines
The Electric Telegraph in Europe
To Inventors and Patentees
Improvements in Carding
Scientific and Mechanical Information
Sticking, or Court Plaster
Engravings
London Industrial Exhibition
The Great State Fair
To Our Contemporaries
To Our Subscribers—The End of the Volume
Answers to Correspondents
Index
Scientific American for Binding
Patent Claims
Important Notice to us
Departments
To Correspondents