Features
Improved Railroad Car Coupling
Mississippi River Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Ohio, Mississippi, St. Louis and Lake Erie Railroads
James Knox Glenn's Dredging And Gold Washing Machine
Sabbath Stillness Round Me
The Late Locomotive Explosion
Portsmouth N. H. Steam Factory
An Artist's Loss
Algebra
A Good Shot
The “United States”
Improvement at South Hadley Falls
Steam Vessels of the British Navy
Remarkable Case of Recovery from Insanity
Tobacco
American Linen
Early Tomatoes
Congressional Library
British Trade in Luxuries
New Mode of Fishing
Lectures on the Philosophy of Mesmerism
Growth of London
To Cure Stammering
Another Boiler Explosion
Mammoth Mining Company
Increase of Gold and its Effect on Value
A Great Machine Shop
Fire at Oswego
The Copper and Gold Regions
Expansion of Steam
For the Scientific American
Temper is Everything
Apples for Food
Working in Brass
Improvement in Machinery for Making Ropes
A Patent Case
List of Patents
Detecting Gold by Weight
Improved Horse Power
New Cotton Gin Saw Filer
Improved Dredging Steamboat
The Felloe Machine
California Inventions
New Propeller
Improvement on Thayer's Truss Bridge
Improved Brad Awl
Steamboats.--Their Management
American Whaling Ships
Electro Magnetism and Navigation
Back Volumes of the Scientific American
Things New and Old
Pure Water in Albany
Blanchard Gun Stock Turning Factory Case
The Travelling Balloon
The Scientific American
Steel and Gold Pens
The Prize Essay
Islands of Maine
Heat by Friction
Casting Bells
Jewish Customs
The Orphan's Gratitude
Anecdote of Allston
Horse Taming
Poisonous Metals--Lead
For the Scientific American
Longevity of the Damask Rose
History of the Rotary Engine
Prepared expressly for the scientific American Wheel Rotary Steam Engine
Another Pretended Cure for Hydrophobia
Iodine--Bromine--Fluorine
Dyeing Catchecu Colors on Cotton
Cure for the Bite of the Rattlesnake
Floating Iron
Snow Balls in Horses Feet
Neutralization of Putrid Miasmata
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