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Features
Colt's Armory Testing Machine, Railway Power Brakes
Interesting Lecture by Professor Tyndall—The Identity of Light and Radiant Heat
The Yale Exploring Expedition of 1871
FOSSIL SEA-SERPENTS-A CURIOUS SWIMMING
The New York Fire Alarm Telegraph
Printing the Patent Drawings
Interior of a Greenhouse
Jones' Improved Projectile for Firearms
Magnesium in Marsh's Test for Arsenic
Millener's Extension Ladder
The Color of the Gulf Stream, and Its Excess of Solid Matter Accounted For
The Progress of Stellar Chemistry
Walsh's Water Wheel Governor
Chapman's Improved Saw Filing Machine
Tunnelling under City Streets and The Atmospheric Railway
American Art Industry
A Munchausen Comet
Are Experimental Tests of Turbine Wheels Trustworthy?
The Common Law of Trademarks
Measuring the Heat of Combustion
Labor and Personal Cleanliness
Scientific and Practical Information
Recent American and Foreign Patents
Departments
Correspondence - March 16, 1872
Answers to Correspondents - March 16, 1872
Notes and Queries - March 16, 1872
Business and Personal - March 16, 1872
Index of Inventions - March 16, 1872