Features
Black's Cast-Iron Tubular Trackway
Start's Grain Reaper
Southern Railways
Ascending Heavy Grades
Dental Operation on an Elephant
Vegetable Wonders
Daniel Kirkwood
Extraordinary Gardening
A Fiery Ordeal—lmprovement in Calico Printing—Distinction between Plant and Animals
Special Correspondence of the Scientific American
The Works of the Csars and the Stephensons
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robert Fulton and Mr. Baine
Facts for the Curious—Female Beauty
A Natural Bridge in Alabama
To Prevent the Explosion of Boilers
Manufacture of Stoves in Albany
Important to Whalemen
The Snail Telegraph Again
New Economy in Steam
Improvement in Oscillating Steam Engines
Tartar on the Teeth
Improvement in Kilns
Improvement in Building Carriages
New Locomotive Shoe
Improvement in the Jacquard
Important Improvement in Setting Teeth
Short Conversations on Mechanics—No. 4
The Practicabilities of Science
To the Patron and Friends of Science
Mechanical Inventions
Steamboat and Railroad
English Patent Laws
Vinegar Adulterations
Fish Breeding
British Lords and English Patent Laws
List of Patent Claims
New Edition of the Patent Laws
Patent Claims
Back Numbers and Volumes
Lightning Conductors and the Action of the Electric Fluid
Physical Composition of Man
New Prospectus to Mechanics
Inventors, and Manufactures
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents