Features
Vegetable Extracts and Quack Medicines
Creosote
New York and Erie Railroad
Frasier's Improved Excavator
Examination of Railroads
Revolving Fire-Arms—Claims of Another Inventor
Railroads and their Management
Coal Mines of England and America
Passages of the Atlantic Steamers from Liverpool
Mineral Wealth of Greenland
Origin of the Turf Bogs in Ireland
The Fulton Steamship
Steam Carriages for Common Roads
Steam to Ireland
Interesting Hebrew Relic
Qualities of Timber—The Proper Time for Cutting it
Frauds in the Weight of Coal
Recent Foreign Inventions
Hospital on Ward's Island
Circular Saws
Improvement in Grain Drills
Alta California
Improvement in Casting Iron Wheels
Tubular Metal Tunnel
Patent Railroad Brake
New Paddle-Wheel
Patent Hurdle Fence
House-Heating
Minot's Ledge Lighthouse
Dr. Colton and the Fire Annihilator
Quinine
American Philosophy—Maury's Sailing Directions
The Gas Contract Vetoed
The Aztec Children
Repeal of a Patent in England
India-Rubber Power Accumulators
Melting of Metals
For One Dollar
Extinguishing Fire—Air-Slacked Lime
Medicinal Cigars
Width of the Ohio River
Bolt Heading Machine Patent
Philadelphia Museum
January Thaws
Influence of America and Webster's Dictionary in India
The Bain Telegraph
An Interesting Patent Case—An Example to Judge Kane
Consumption of Tobacco and Tea in Britain
Patent Claims
An Important Paragraph
Back Numbers and Volumes
New Edition of the Patent Laws
Nutmegs Indigenous to California
Restoring to Life
Black Noses
On Boilers--No.7
New Photographic Process
Knowledge Contained in the Scientific American
The Scientific American to its Friends and the Public
Salmon Fishing
Departments
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