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