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Features
Improved Ditching Machine
The War
Recent American Inventions
The Shrapnell Shell and Fuse
Ketchum's Reaping Machine—Refusal of Extension
The Conduct of Our Soldiers
Fires—A Stupid Neglect in English Railway Management
Electricity for Exploding Gunpowder
General Scott Not Too Blame
The Comet
How Ship Armor Plates are Made
Rifle Shooting in England
Malaria
Patent Claims - August 10, 1861
To Our Readers
Instructions about European Patents
Departments
Correspondence - August 10, 1861
Notes and Queries - August 10, 1861