Features
Sawing and Planing Machines
Improved Compensating Balance
A World's Fair in France
The Tea Culture Again
Refining Gold
A Curious Incident
Books and Magazines with Uncut Leaves
A Large Straw Cutter Wanted
Electricity as a Motive Power
Shipbuilding in Maine
California Gold Inexhaustible
The Cashmere Goat an Adopted Citizen
Improved Loom Clasps
Stone Drilling Machine
Self-Feeding Metal Drills
Patent Office Report
The Steamer Rotary
Steam Carriage for Common Roads
Tinning
Foreign Patents
Merchant and War Steamers
Reform of the Patent Laws
Morse's Telegraph Patent
The Cholera
Types of Mankind
American Linen Factory
Recent Foreign Inventions
Flying
[For the Scientific American.]
Melting Point and Transformation of Sulphur
A Great Bridge
Freaks of Lightning
To Purify Hard Water for Steam Boilers
Filling Bottles
Mechanics
Manufacturers and Inventors A new volume of the Scientific American
Appearance of the Earth from a Balloon
Minot's Ledge Lighthouse
Dammara Varnish
Departments
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To Correspondents