Features
The Good of Theories
The East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
Bushnell's Improved Metal Drill
Block from the old Frigate Hussar
Copper in Wisconsin
Beards
Healey's National Picture
Porter's Tuyere Iron
Stove Polish
Poetry and the Fire Annihilator
The Fair of the American Institute
Culture of the Olive
The Exhibition of the Franklin Institute
Cedars and Pines of California
Scorpions in Egypt
Millholland's Coal Burning Locomotive
American Telescopes
Liebig on Electro Magnetism as a Motive Power
Improvement in Taps for Cutting Screws
Improvement in Pianofortes
Improvement in Carriage Springs
Improved Seed Planter
Improved Machine for Drying Clothes
Smoke Condensing Grate
Improved Lamp
Patent Office Report for 1850--No. 5
More Improvements Wanted
A Word to Apprentices
Fringe Twisting Machine
The Fire Annihilator--An Old American Invention
United States Steamships
Patent Office Building
The Eatonton Railroad
Mechanism
List of Patent Claims
Petition for Extension of a Patent
New Edition of the Patent Laws
Binding Volume 6
Postage on Books
Patent Claims
Back Numbers and Volumes
Immensity of Space
A Disinfecting Agent
Power of Condensation Possessed by Charcoal
New Prospectus to Mechanics
Inventors and Manufacturers
Cure of Rattlesnake Bites
Varnish for Oil Paintings
Size for Draughtsmen
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents