Features
New Fire Arm
Recent Foreign Inventions
To Destroy Ants
Circulation of the Scientific American
Improvement in Oil Lamps
Weighing and Packing Machine
Back Numbers Wanted
Improved Car Brake
Carpet for the President's House
A Chicago Locomotive
Our Prospect
The Influence of Climate and Laws on Our People
A New Method of Modelling in Plaster
Adulterated Cream of Tartar
The Telegraph and Electricity Applied to War
Extent of London
Crossing the Ocean in Six Days
List of Patent Claims
Bonnell's Patent Flouring Process
Folding Bedstead
Improved Threshing Machine
Stone Dressing Machine
Improved Barrel Machinery
Baker's Improved Furnace
New Theory of the Tides
War
Patent Office Report for 1852—No. 2
Plan for Building the Pacific Railroad
Crystal Palace
American Institute
Gas Explosions
Artesian Wells
Coke in Locomotives
Imponderable Agents—No. 5
The Logotype
Improved Brushes
Mechanics
Puffing New Inventions
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents
- Letters
Letter from a Subscriber
- Recommended
A Chapter of Suggestions, &C
