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New York and Erie Railroad
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Subterranean Lake Recovered
Rich Mine
Husk Beds
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American Lard
Speed of the Locomotive
Pictorial National Library
Boston Museum
Size of New York in 1698
Pictorial Directory of New York
A Distinction
Singular Break of the Ocean
Depression of Manufactures
Compliment to an American Artist
The Great Sea Serpent
“The Scientific American”
The Fair of the American Institute
India Rubber
An Odd Patent and an Old Inventor
Emery in Asia Minor
The Sufferings, Perseverance, and Triumph of Genius
Respect for Art
Electric Light Again
A Reform in Locomotive Fuel Wanted
Height of the Atmosphere
The Bosphorus
The African Rhinoceros
Screw Cutting
New Steamboat Paddles
Harness Saddles
New Crane at Baltimore
List of Patents
Daniel's Patent Planing Machine
To Prevent Railway Collisions
Sheet Lead
Printing Presses
Planing Machines
Isham's Patent Sand Paper
War Against Labor Saving Machinery
Iron Carriages
The Robbery at Washington--1500 Reward
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The Law of Libel
Machinery for Sale
Counting Room Almanac
Progress of Science
Cholera
Opium Drunkenness
Names in Nautical Architecture
Valuable Scientific and Mechanical Works
The Great Wall of China
The Business of Rochester
New Chemical Law
Leydoyen's Disinfecting Fluid
Changes in Solid Forms
Myriads of Animalcules
History of the Rotary Engine
Air Guns
Yellow Metal for Sheathing
Phosphorescence of the Sea
Golden Yellow
The Best Mechanical Paper
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