Features
Glazing Iron Vessels
Improved Brick Making Machine
Light Locomotives
Iron Railroad Bridges
Anti-Attrition and Axle Grease
Freshets
The Manufacture of Varnished Leather in France
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Patent Cause Decision
The Building for the Great Fair
History and Construction of the Thermometer
Improved Candlestick
Sudden Death of an Inventor
English Plate Glass
Battin's Coal Breaker
Crank Indicator
A Galvanic or Electric Harpoon for Paralizing Whales
Solvent for Old Putty and Paint
Improved Scythe Snath
Wonderful Machine
Water for Charleston
A Patent Wanted. Who Would Have Believed It?
Gigantic Marine Work
Particular Notices
The Inventor of Pegged Boots
The World's Industrial Exhibition
How to Arrest Cholera
Improvements in Locomotives—The Grand Object Accomplished
Commissioner of Patents
List of Patent Claims
Formation of Rain
New Roofs
Now is Your Time
New Prospectus of the Scientific American
A Balloon Railway
Mill Driven by Artesian Wells
History of Propellers and Steam Navigation
Experiments with Metals
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents