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Colder Yet
Indiana Railroads
Coal in Locomotive Engines
Butter
Simple Cure for Croup
Warning for Apothecaries
Sharps' Breech-Loading Patent Rifle—Fig 1
Behind the Age
A Great Railroad Project
U.S. Astronomical Mission
The Force of Imagination
Explosion of a Locomotive
Professional Beggars
Great Discovery
Early Closing of Dry Good Stores
Carbon as Food for Plants
A Righteous Verdict
Works on Science and Art
Good Investment
Where is the Wilderness?
Lectures on the Mysterious Knockings at Rochester
Correspondence of the Scientific American
Agricultural Discovery
The Treatment of Piles on Mechanical Principles and by Self-Management
Newly Discovered Properties of Heat in Combination with Steam
Failure of Iron Steamboats
A Great Suspension Bridge
Remmington's Bridge
New Plan of Tin Roofing
Improvement in Hydrants
Strength or Gutta Percha Tubing
New Lantern
How to Puzzle the Rogues
The Woodworth Patent
Novel Plan for Building Houses
A New Building Material
Brown's Eccentric Progressive Power Press
The Steamboat Challenge
New Window Fastener
World's Convention of Industry in America
To Our Half-Yearly Subscribers
Future Discoveries—What Science Has Yet to Accomplish
Invention, Civilization and Pauperism
New Steamships
A Petrified Body
List of Patent Claims
Valentines
Tanning—Practical Remarks
Polar Origin of the Tides
Duration of Life
History of Propellers and Steam Navigation
Curious Effect of the Electric Light
Burns and Scalds
Results of Some Experiments on the Explosion of Burning Fluids
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