Features
Bachelor's Lament
Precocious Genius
Hitching the Cussed Thing
Dialogue Between a Man in Want of Work and a Man in Want of a Workman
Tall Trees
Hatch's Stop Motion for Looms--Figure 1
Served Him Right
Meteors
Fog Bells
Copper Mine in New Jersey
White Whale
The Greek Slave
Perpetual Motion
Emigration in Canada
Steam Hod Carriers
Obtaining Patents in France
Commerce
American Telegraphs
Heating the Oven and Cooking
Absence of Mind
The Akron Æolian
Postal Negotiation
Railroads in Germany
Good Profits
A New Enterprise
The Telegraphic Wires
Parasols in the Drawing Room
Ladies' Pages
From Mexico
The Ring
Pasteboard Shoes
Co-Operation Trading Society
Creatures with Thousands of Eyes
Anti-Celibacy
The Cambridge Telescope
Nutritious Value of Bones
Father is Coming
Lead Pipes in Cisterns
Curiosities of the West
Bridges in Texas
Curious Tenure
Strange Discovery
Water
A Strange People
A Novelty in Sculpture
Fireproof Cement
Improvement in Locomotives
New Stave Dressing Machine
Barrel Making at Oswego
Lighthouse Light
Spark Arresters
Coupling for Railroad Cars
Percussion Cap Machine
Iron Carriage Wheel
Vulcanized India Rubber
Street Sweeping Machine
Lathe Chucks for Very Small Saws
Smoke Consumer
Magic Carriage Step
Æolian Attachment
On the Construction of Chimneys
Steamer North America
The Utility and Pleasures of Science
New Beacon Light at St. Joseph
To New Subscribers
Never Saw a Railroad
Cast Iron Houses
Mechanical Movements
Rotary Steam Engine
Coal for Steam Engines
Clock Work
Longitude and the Electric Telegraph
Arithmetic
Poverty
A Bank Safe Blown up and Robbed
Connecticut Genius
Plowing in Ancient Peru
A Dog Story
Information
Clouds and Light on the Crescent
Whaling Gun
A Useful Hint for Prosy Chairmen
Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehannah Railroad Company
Vol. 1 Scientific American
Daugerrian Establishment
Patent Agency
Tincture of Roses
Medicine for Hogs
Improved Galvanizing Process
Manufacture of Shell Cameos
How a Farmer Out West Preserves His Eggs
The Art of Painting
Science for the Kitchen
To Keep a Way the Moth
A Castle of Chemical Ice
New Method of Cleansing the Lenses of Telescopes
Chinese Mode of Fishing
To Have Good Teeth
A Snake Story
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