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Features
Gas Explosion
Improvement in the Production of “Bleu de France” on Wool
An Extraordinary Lamp
Marston's Breech-Loading Fire-Arms and Patent Cartridge
Steam Fire Engine
Hydraulic Rams
Heating Water for Steam Engines
Reported expressly for the "Scientific American" Lectures or Chemistry.—No. 3
The Fire Telegraph of Boston
The Iron Trade Flourishing
Manufacture of Iron— New Process for Making Wrought-Iron Direct from the Ore
Fire Damp Explosions
Salt of Gold
Remarkable Escape
Letter from China
For the Scientific American Heat—Some of Its Effects—Aerial and Ocean Currents
Machinery and Tools as they are.—Printing Presses
Observations Relative to the Electro-Chemical Properties of Hydrogen
Stealing Calico Patterns
A Large Mass of Iron
New Steering Apparatus
Replacing Railroad Cars
Sediment in Boilers
Cast-Iron Pavements
Improvements in Sawing Machines
Improved Journal Box
Machinery for Dressing Flax
Mechanics' Lectures
The Ray Premiums Again
Critical Dissertation on Steam, Air, and Gas Engines
Reports of the Commissioner of Patents
Progress of Discovery and Invention During 1852
Mechanical Papers—A Deceased Contemporary
Geographical Society
Climate of Minnesota
Reform of the Patent Laws
Large Printing Presses
White's Patent Railroad Truck—A Defence
Wells, Artesian—Raising Water
Books for Mechanics
The Caloric Steamship
Our Textile Manufactures
Departments
To Correspondents
Literary Notices
