Features
Rise of Railroad Fares
Mohawk and Schenectady Railroad
Tearing up a Railroad
Parsneps
New Smut Machine
Dress in Japan
Cochin China Fowls
The Chlorides of Gold
Railroad Robbery
Our Own City
Our Cotton Factories
The Dead of 1849
Patent Office Business
Debt of the City of New York
Death of Two Inventors
The English Language
Morals of New York
International Literary Exchanges
Parkhurst's Cotton Gin
Miscellaneous
Correspondence of the Scientific American
Coal
British Mechanics Association
Discoveries in Ancient Nineveh
Blowing up Wrecks by Electricity
Useful Information about Water Wheels
Natural History of the Sabbath
Survey of Great Britain
Dr. Franklin
Improvement in Gold and Silver Pencil Cases
Propeller for Canals
Improved Hot Air Engine
Action and Re-Action
New Way to Manufacture Shot
New Rotary Engine
Improvement in the Manufacture of Velvet
Railroad Accidents—A Suggestion
Naval Science
Machine for Repairing Roads
Question
Reading during the Winter Evenings
English Piracy of Inventions
To Color Sheep Skins for Door Mats
Spirit Drinking in Great Britain and Ireland
The Properties of the Crank
List of Patent Claims
Report of the Secretary of the Interior about the Patent Office—Extracts
On Tanning Leather—Preparation of Hides
History ot Propellers and Steam Navigation
The Tea Plant in America
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents