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To Preserve Leeches
The Chlorides of Gold
Rembert's Reaping, Threshing, and Separating Machine
Reduction of Fare on the Jersey Railroad
To Soften Putty, and Remove Glass Without Breaking
Road to the Pacific
Expedition of Sir John Franklin
The Vatican at Rome
The Scientific American
Sponge Fishing
Things as They Exist
A Polar Bear
Handsome Editor
Turkish Plan of Curing Founder in Horses
Surgical Operation
Fast Running on the Central Road
Design in the Natural World
American Indigo
The Cotton Experiment in Australia
Shagreen
Self-Made American Opticians
Preparation of Sugar
Patent Oat Flour
New Paddle Wheel
New Algebraic Method
Improved Journal Box
Improved Fire-Arm
Heal's Patent Process for Purifying Feathers
New Way to Make Red Hot Shot
The Great Rotary Engine
Great Fair of the American Institute No. 2
Scientific Memoranda
Discovery of Ventilation
Riots at Philadelphia
Patent Suits
Notice to Editors
New Discovery in Agriculture
What Water Can Do
Patent Office Report for 1848
New Dam at Hadley Falls
List of Patent Claims
Centre of Gyration
A Hard Lot
Trial by Jury in Patent Cases,--No.5
Atlanta, Ga
American Female Artists
Taxation for Free Schools
Expensive Shirt Bosoms
That Fossil Ape
Meteorological Observations
Floating Bee-House
To Mechanics and Inventors
The Best Mechanical Paper
City Life
Scientific Art
Hollow Iron Moulding
Fatal Steamboat Accident
Elastic Force of Steam
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To Correspondents
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Experiments on the Steam Engine
Cingalese Jewellers and Their Forges