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Scientific American Magazine Vol 7 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 7, Issue 5

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Features

The Good of Theories

Hudson River Railroad

Bushnell's Improved Metal Drill

The East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad

Block from the old Frigate Hussar

Healey's National Picture

The Fair of the American Institute

Copper in Wisconsin

Beards

Porter's Tuyere Iron

Poetry and the Fire Annihilator

Stove Polish

Culture of the Olive

The Exhibition of the Franklin Institute

Scorpions in Egypt

Millholland's Coal Burning Locomotive

Liebig on Electro Magnetism as a Motive Power

American Telescopes

Cedars and Pines of California

Improved Machine for Drying Clothes

Improved Seed Planter

Smoke Condensing Grate

Improvement in Carriage Springs

Improvement in Taps for Cutting Screws

Improvement in Pianofortes

Improved Lamp

Patent Office Report for 1850--No. 5

United States Steamships

The Fire Annihilator--An Old American Invention

Fringe Twisting Machine

A Word to Apprentices

More Improvements Wanted

Mechanism

List of Patent Claims

Patent Office Building

The Eatonton Railroad

Petition for Extension of a Patent

Postage on Books

New Edition of the Patent Laws

Binding Volume 6

Patent Claims

Back Numbers and Volumes

A Disinfecting Agent

Cure of Rattlesnake Bites

Varnish for Oil Paintings

Immensity of Space

New Prospectus to Mechanics

Inventors and Manufacturers

Size for Draughtsmen

Power of Condensation Possessed by Charcoal

Departments

To Correspondents