Features
French Portable Steam Engine
Pneumatic Railroad
Steam on the Rio de la Plata
Adjustment of Compasses in Iron Vessels
Tooth Powder
Great Railroad Tunnel
Serious Railroad Accident
Antidote for Corrosive Sublimate
Appropriation of American Discoveries by the English Admiralty
Fair of the American Institute
Liebig on the Fermentation of Wine and Beer
Perils of Ballooning
Sanatory Congress in Brussells
British Association for the Advancement of Science
Timber for Carriages—Proper Time to Cut It
Improved Oil Box for Locomotives
Packing of Piston Heads
Ox Bow Fastener
Improved Table
New Invention
Wilson's New Propeller
Grayson's Odometer
The Widow of Henry Bell
The Plant Fly Trap
Power Machines a Benefit to Operatives
Beardslee's Planing Machine
Burning Smoke
Our Atlantic Steamships
Report on Lighthouses
Dangerous Feat
Heat of the Body
Corrosion of Metals in Water
Patent Laws and Guide to Inventors
Back Numbers and Volumes
Patent Claims
Cheap Postage—Important to Subscribers
A Man in the Air
Thomson's Artesian Well Borer
Mineral and Nitrogenized Manures
The Great Storm in August
Mechanics
Gastric Juice
Camphor an Antidote for Strychnine
Departments
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To Correspondents
