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The True Aristocrats
A New Railroad in Indiana
The Poor Man's Doings
Southern Railroad Convention
Philadelphia and Princeton Railroad
Massachusetts Railroads
Improved Gold Washer
Remarkable Clock
Chloroform--Kreosote--Cholera
A Hundred and Odd Years Ago
Pocket Tape Measure
Gooseberries
New York City Elections
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
The Iron Business
Asking the Leave to Gape
Decease of a Man of Science
Church in San Francisco
Oil of Rhodium For Rats
Maple Suger at the West
A Year's Immigration
Our Prize Essay Again
New Foundland
Manchester, New Hampshire
Washington Monument--A Promising Boy
Fulton's Steamboat
The Free School Act
Thrift of the Yankee
Indian Method of Twisting Gun Barrels
Patent Railway Axles--Interesting Case in Extending a Patent
New Fire Escape
Ingenuity in the Manufacture of Iron
Splendid Achromatic Lenses
New Fire Annihilator
Improved Tilting Wagon
The Electric Light
Improved Portable Air Heating Stove
Hovey's Straw Cutter
Telegraph
Balloon Navigation
Our London Patrons
Dr. Locke's Electro Chronograph and Mr. Bond's Magnetic Clock
California Houses
Back Volumes of the Scientific American
Planing Machines
More Coal on the Pacific Ocean
City Fountains
Advantages of the West for Manufacturing
Recovery of the Jewels Stolen from the Patent Office
Steamboat Explosions
Dreams
Capacity of the West
List of Patents
A Great Man in His Line
Hydrophobia
On the Freezing of Alcohol
History of the Rotary Engine
Uses of the Black Currant
Useful Problems
To Whiten Linen
To Restore Stained Linen
To Restore Scorched Linen
The Best Mechanical Paper in the World!
Fourth Year of the Scientific American!
To Paste Lithographs on Muslin
Poisonous Acids--Hydrocyanic Acid
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