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Scientific American Magazine Vol 7 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 7, Issue 3

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Features

The Fastest Steamboat Running on Record

Hempfield Railroad

Metallic Paint

Terrible Explosion

Water Sprinkler for Streets

Railroads of Massachusetts

The Great Drouth

The Patent Office—Its Architect

Curious effects of Metallic Vibrations

Foreign Correspondence

Improvement in Securing Anvils and Other like Tools to Benches

New Window Sash Fastener

Passages of the Atlantic Mail Steamers--Quarter from July 2 to Sept 28, 1851

Improvement in Picking and Furrowing Mill Stones

Post-Office Stamps—Unfair Dealing

Cure for Hydrophobia

Expose of Paine's Light

Washington Monument

Improvement in Attaching Auger Handles

Improvement in Annealing Wire

Gwynne's Centrifugal Pump

Our New Type

Webster's Unabridged Quarto Dictionary

Inventions

Patent Office Report for 1850—No. 3

Phillips' Fire Annihilator

A New Science

Steamboat Question—Pacific and Atlantic Tides

List of Patent Claims

Milton's Daughters

Postage on Books

Binding Volume 6

On Sending Receipts

Back Numbers and Volumes

New Edition of the Patent Laws

Patent Claims

Yacht Racing in America and Europe

Sails of the Yacht America

Antidote for Arsenic

New Prospectus to Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Variations from Climate in Organic Life

White's Tubular Suspension Bridge

Departments

Erratum--Tilton's Violin

To Correspondents