Features
Railroads of the United States
Railroads in Alabama
Cancer
Mechanics' Institutes in England
Juke's Smoke-Consuming Furnace
Russian Railroad
Treasurer's Report—Gold and Silver Currencies of the World
Governor Hunt and Mechanical Trades in State Prisons
Circular Saws
Chemical Products at the Great Exhibition
Mother of Pearl
Qualities of Timber—The Proper Time for Cutting it
To Cure the Taste of Turnips in Butter
Cure for Hernia
Improvement in Head and Tail Blocks
Improvement in Drop Presses
English Steamers and French Railways
A Want Supplied—New Hand Loom
Street Paving
Improved Saw Set
Improved Anti-Friction Box
New Night Signal for Steam and Sailing Vessels
American Inventions, Inventors, and the Scientific American
Double vs Single Track Railways
Steam Carriages for Plank Roads
Design for the Great Exhibition Building at New York
Reform in the Patent Laws
The Arctic Regions
List of Patent Claims
The Scientific American—Its Science
Back Numbers and Volumes
An Important Paragraph
New Edition of the Patent Laws
To Patentees
Interesting to Scientific Authors
Great Artist Dead
Inducements for Clubbing
Liability of Telegraphs
Water Melon Butter
On Boilers—No. 8
Velocity
Departments
- From the Editor
Erratum
To Correspondents