Features
Improvement in the Production of “Bleu de France” on Wool
Gas Explosion
An Extraordinary Lamp
Remarkable Escape
The Fire Telegraph of Boston
The Iron Trade Flourishing
Manufacture of Iron— New Process for Making Wrought-Iron Direct from the Ore
Fire Damp Explosions
Reported expressly for the "Scientific American" Lectures or Chemistry.—No. 3
Heating Water for Steam Engines
Hydraulic Rams
Steam Fire Engine
Salt of Gold
Letter from China
Machinery and Tools as they are.—Printing Presses
Observations Relative to the Electro-Chemical Properties of Hydrogen
Stealing Calico Patterns
For the Scientific American Heat—Some of Its Effects—Aerial and Ocean Currents
A Large Mass of Iron
Improved Journal Box
Replacing Railroad Cars
Improvements in Sawing Machines
Sediment in Boilers
New Steering Apparatus
Machinery for Dressing Flax
Cast-Iron Pavements
Progress of Discovery and Invention During 1852
Critical Dissertation on Steam, Air, and Gas Engines
Geographical Society
Mechanics' Lectures
Reports of the Commissioner of Patents
Mechanical Papers—A Deceased Contemporary
The Ray Premiums Again
Large Printing Presses
Reform of the Patent Laws
Climate of Minnesota
White's Patent Railroad Truck—A Defence
Wells, Artesian—Raising Water
The Caloric Steamship
Our Textile Manufactures
Books for Mechanics
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents
- Recommended
Literary Notices
