Features
General Railroad Law
Detonating Silver
The Lunar Caustic
Solder for Silver
Senator Benton' Scheme for a National Highway to the Pacific
Railroad to the Pacific
Nitric Solution of Silver
Goshon's Improved Smut Machine
Railroad Experiment
Works on Science and Art Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Correspondence of the Scientific American
News from California
Congress
Calico Soirees
Playing the British National Debt
Singular Phenomenon—A Shower of Sulphur
Gold on the Yellowstone
Dr. Furman's Remedy for Stranger's Fever at the South
California Steamers and Coal
Some Causes of Disease
Origin of the Plow
Explosion of a Boiler
Curiosities of Royalty
Death of an Eminent Artist
Roads in the North-West
New Respirator and Inhaler
Improved Machine for Setting up the Bows for Covers of Wagons and Carriages
Friction Match Case
Camels for the Western Prairies
The New Art of Kerasophany
The Eclectic Bee Hive
Manufacture of Iron
Identification of Dr. Parkman's Body
New Water Filter Cooler Refrigerator and Meat Preserver
A New Discovery for Millers
Parker's Water Wheel
Curious Drugs for Producing Hallucination
Reform of the Patent Laws
The Wood-worth Patent
List of Patent Claims
Camera Lucida
Back Volumes Scientific American
Acetate of Silver
Potatoes
To Inventors and Mechanics
A Singular Cure of Disease in the Spine
Tanning—Practical Remarks
History of Propellers and Steam Navigation
Evaporation from the Thames
Cure for a Ringworm
To Drive Away Rats
The Works of Science
Sulphate of Silver
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