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Scientific American Magazine Vol 6 Issue 27

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 6, Issue 27

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Features

Railroad through the British Provinces of America

Machine for Sticking Pins Into Paper

Cumberland Mountain Tunnel

The Blue Ridge Tunnel

Foreign Correspondence

Liabilities of Railway Companies in England

New Process of Daguerreotyping

Soundings Obtained at Sea

Steamboats, Railroads and Telegraphs

Restoration of Sight

To Clean Rusted Iron Work

New Swingle-Tree for Carriages

Balloon Navigation

Improved Grain Drill

Notice

New and Ingenious Tooth Puller

The Largest Edition Yet

Depilatory Powders

Cast Iron Pavements

Steam versus Stame as a Propelling Power

Business in the Patent Office

Steamboat Boiler Bursting on the Western Waters

Back Numbers and Volumes

List of Patent Claims

Errata—Patent Claims

A Sofa Made Of Coal

Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Destruction of Ships by Spontaneous Combustion

New Discovery of Daguerreotype

New Jersey Zinc and Franklinite

The Spanish Fly and the Cockroach

Departments

Correction

Eratum

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