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To Ascertain the Age of a Horse
The Broad Guage
A Sagacious Bog
New Broad Guage Line in England
Wood's Patent
Greenock Railway
Perpetual Motion
Great Western Railway
Rail Road News
A Curious Flower
Napoleon's Poison
Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad
Hudson River Railroad
A Crooked Fence
Vaccination and Small Pox
The Lasso
Destruction of Large Mills
Consumption of Sugar
The Great Fair of the American Institute
A Tough One
To Cure a Cough
Sugar
Franklin Institute
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Indiana
Civil War of Turkey
The Yankees
Mechanics for the War
The Divisibility of Matter
Plumbe's and Whitney's Projects for a Rail Road to the Pacific
A Relic
Weight of Grain
The Cricket Steamboat
Popping the Question
A Rare House
English Quarter
A Lucky Escape: Thrillingly Thrilling
Grace and Beauty
Depth of the Ocean
Oscilating Window Shade Rollers
New Water Wheel
Improvement in Propelling Screw
Improvement in Making Scabbards
Bull's Stationary Chimney Top
Noiseless Wheel
Twisting Withes
Brewster's Reversing Plough
List of Patents
Smith's Rotary Engine--Vertical Sectional View
Sheet Lead Machine
Water Wheels
India Rubber Shoes
Capstan Pump
American Railroad Iron
War Weapons
Another Use for Ether
A Ship Canal from Montreal to the Lakes
New Enterprize
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American Shipping
March of Locomotion
Geology System Makers
Exceedingly Coppery
Stone's Bed Sofa
Negro Suffrage
Electrotype and Electro Gilding
The Capstan Pump
Electricity—Kite's Invention
A Singular Iron Man Petrifaction
The Palmyra Tree
Old Boots and Shoes
A Chance for Emigrants
Useful Hints about Bed-rooms
The Rosse Telescope
The Favorite Mexican Stimulant
Hard of Hearing
Quantity of Breath in Man and Woman
A Hungry Printer
Female Professorships
Small Potatoes
The Rocks of Calvary
Patent Agency
Island City
Atmospheric Pile Driving
Amant's Escapement
Cachu Lozenges
To Obtain Heights which Cannot be measured
Soap
Water as Fuel
Scientific American
Hydrogen and Oxygen Gas
Pneumatic Engine
Peat Composition
The Motive Power of Coal and Zinc
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- From the Editor
Facts for the Public—The Scientific American
To Correspondents - October 16, 1847