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Scientific American Magazine
September 1856
Volume 12
,
Issue 3
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Features
Saving Bacon
Improved Harvester
McDougal's Disinfecting Powder
Progress in Ireland
Florida Railroads
Pennsylvania Polytechnic College
List of Patent Claims
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Geography of Plants
Decimal Weights and Measures
The Hughes Telegraph
American Blister Flies
Electro-Chemical Baths
Advice to Manufacturers of Tin Plate
A Simple Microscope
Inventions Wanted
Tree Cutting Machine
Water-Proof Textile Fabrics
Poisoning with Strychnine Cured
Improved Water Wheel
The Inventor of Purifying Molten Crude Iron without Fuel an American
The Scientific American Prizes
Resignation of the Commissioner of Patents
Franklin
Recent American Patents
Our Great Ships
Uses of Cypress Bark
A Marine Locomotive
The Plow.--An Improvement Wanted
Thrashing by Steam Power
Prevention of Smoke
Death of a Celebrated Navigator
Geographical Expeditions
Great Exhibition of the American Institute at the Crystal Palace, New York
Important Items
Correspondents
Prospectus
Developement of Races of Animals
The Life of Seeds
Improved Seed Sower
Gum Copal