Features
Improvement in Padlocks
Scouring Drops for Removing Grease
North American Colony Railroad
Self-Varying; Tailors & Measure
Buffalo and Detroit Railway
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Useful Receipts
American Association for the Advancement of Science
A Gigantic Statue
Old Times
The Siamese Twins
A New Way to Puzzle Rogues
The Honey Bird
History and Construction of the Thermometer
Self-Lifting Water-Wheel
Improved Granite Lifting Wedge
Coating Iron with Copper
New Brick Machine
Scientific Association
New Artificial Leech and Cupping Tube
Foreign Scientific Memoranda
Telegraph Extension
Patent Case
Improvements in Railroad Travelling
Agricultural Machinery
Mechanics' Fair
A Tall Chimney
Ocean Encroachments
Improvements in the Scientific American
The Great Case of the Parker Water Wheel
Mineral Paint Discovered in Massachusetts
Ostrich Hunting
Novel Suspension Bridge—An Army of Monkeys
List of Patent Claims
Boston as it Was
A Devoted Naturalist
Kentucky Tobacco Crop
Now is Your Time
Important Notice to Us!
Patent Claims
Hard Coal Ashes
Giant's Bones
Colors
Means of Counteracting the Effects of Corrosive Sublimate
History of Propellers and Steam Navigation
French Polish
White Hair and Black—A Fact Worth Knowing
Departments
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Advice to Correspondents
To Correspondents