Features
The Fatherless
Telegraphs
Housatonic, New York and New Haven Railroads
Consolations for the Lonely
Settlement of the Niagara Bridge Question
Stone Cutting Machine
A Cave
Cause of Grey Hair
Changes of Vegetation and Climate
Planing Machine and Portable Saw Mill
Aristocracy in London
Experiments in Gunnery
Boiler Explosions
The Steam Ship Panama
Curious Fact
Postal Arrangement with Great Britain
The Value of Practical Science
The British Museum
Racoon in England
Dick's Anti-Friction Press
Another Cure for the Cholera
Function of the Skin in Man and Animals
Dying for Another Man's Wife
Mirage in the Great Salt Desert
Drawing False Horizons
Coral Formations
Land of Plenty
Machine for Washing Potatoes
Improved Skate
List of Patents
Fac-Similies of Busts
Everglades of Florida
Carpet Looms
New Musical Instrument
Gas Light Monitor
Cholera Protector
Improvements in a Felloe Cutting Machine
Another Flying Machine
Improvement in Propellers
Back Volumes of the Scientific American
Southern Factories
Patent Laws
The Ten Hour Bill
Potterville
Interesting Patent Case
The Electric Light Again
Winter Evenings for Mechanics
The Scientific American
Steam Engines for Sale
Combustion.--Grates, Stoves and Ventilation
Currents of the Ocean
Cloth Made of Pineapple Leaves
A Blessed Land
National Arbitration
Who Are the Truly Valuable in Society
Eccentricities of Rivers
The First Locomotive
Refused Package
The New Mode of Ship Building
History of the Rotary Engine
Tinning Copper
Sulphate of Lead a Substitute for White Lead
The Best Mechanical Paper
Departments
- From the Editor
Prize Essay
To Correspondents
