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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 24

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 24

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Features

Wheeling Bridge

Birkett's Improvement in Sugar Refining Machinery

New Arrangement between the New York and Erie Railroad

Foreign Correspondence

Paine's Light in Britain—A Mistake

Macadam in Paris

Queenston Suspension Bridge

Spontaneous Combustion in Cotton

A Real Solution of Gold

Gold Solution

Ground Pumpkins and Good Brooms

Choice Receipt for Dyeing

The Baltic

Growth of Shade Trees

The Atlantic and Arctic

Improvement in the Manufacture of Starch

Ship Builders and Ship Building

California Gold

Sea Steamers

New Suspender

A Great Discovery in Engine Power

Rope-Spinners' Improved Bobbin

Improvements in Cotton Spinning Machinery

New Railway Signal

A New Patent for Something Old

Barlow's Planing Machine

English Patents for American Inventions

Improved Plow Cultivator

Monument to Christopher Columbus

Improvement in the Manufacture of Composition Metallic Spoons

Genius

Lightning Rods

The Patent Office Building

Cast-Iron Pavements

Actinism

Propellers

The Original Inventor of Flax Cotton

Preserving Fresh Beef, &C

Horseflesh for Food in Prussia and Austria

List of Patent Claims

Sharp Frosts in Valleys

Beneficial Effects of Tea

Gypsum in Agriculture

Grease for Coarse Boots

Cheap Pie Crust

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Corruption of Words

To Obtain the Metallic Lead from Sulphate of Lead

Castor Beans

Coal of Puget's Sound

Use of Chloroform

Flax—Cotton