Features
Protecting River Banks
Bronson's Improvements in Sawing Frames
Ohio and Indiana Railroad
For the Scientific American
Diamond Slab
The Secret of Taming Birds
Facts, on Dits, and Matters Connected with the Crystal Palace
Special Correspondence or the Scientific American
The Inventor of Railways
Chemical Freezing Agents
Extension of Steam between Glasgow and New-York
Electricity
The Telegraph in Europe
Hindoo Mechanics and Artizans
Enthusiasm for Science
Cloth Dressing Machine
Russell's Improvement in Chimney Caps
Improvement in Sugar Apparatus
New Fire Alarm
Improvement in Grist Mills
A New Railway Brake
The Centrifugal Force Philosophers and the New Motive Power
Peraot's Machine for Cutting Screw Blanks
Improved Fastening for Bedsteads
New Ballast for Ships
Mock Auctions and Inventions
Short Conversations on Mechanics—No. 2
American and London Hats
American Wines
Braithwaite's Retrospect Practical Medicine and Surgery
Patent Case
Bartlett's Elements of Natural Philosophy—Mechanics
The Alleged New Motive Power
List of Patent Claims
The Animal Kingdom
Back Numbers and Volumes
New Edition of the Patent Laws
Extraordinary Pertrification and other Curiosities
The Drying up of the Sea
Hydraulics
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents