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Raising Weights under Water by Gas

A New Article of Trade in China

Death of a Young Mechanic

Miller's Sewing Machine

A Great Railroad Scheme

Recent Foreign Inventions

A New Railroad for Broadway

Delegates to the Worlds Fair from Washington

Soap and Paint

A Question of Chemistry at Law

Agassiz's Cabinet Sold

New Kind of Cotton

Photography on Stone

New York Mechanics' Institute

Telegraph Batteries

Manufacturing Gold

Inventors--Their Rights and Wrongs

List of Patent Claims

Steam Boiler Explosions--Lieut. Hunt Criticised

Locomotive Spark Arrester

Improved Grain Winnowing Machines

Improved Root Cleaner

How to Observe

The Wave-Line of Ships-Old Fogy Periodicals

Our Prizes--To the People

Patents in Canada--Congress

To Keep Gum Arabic Sweet

Southern Mechanics

Trial Excursion

New Steamboat Law--Revocation of a License

Railway Improvements

Crystal Palace

To Correspondents

A Chapter of Suggestions, & C

Manufactured Superphosphate of Lime

Novel Way of Holding a Horse

Echols' Water Gauge for Steam Boilers

South American Protection from the Stroke of the Sun

Heat of Europe and America

Leaves of Geraniums

Black Ants

How to Keep Smoked Hams

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