Features
Over-Honest Silver Coin
Steamboat Accidents in the West
Subterranean Air Essential to the Growth of Vegetation
Disinfecting of Putrid, Noxious Gases
Recent Foreign Inventions
Savannah Water Works
Expansion from Heat
Flax Industry.—No. 11
An Inventor Injured by his own Invention
Steam Fire Engines
To Render Wood Incombustible
Cheap Substitute for Coffee
Scientific Memoranda
Viviparous Fish
The Calcium Light
The Constitution of Nature—A Sublime Conclusion
Raising Canary Seed
Cotton Cleaner
Improved Door Key
Music Printing Press
Improvement in Parallel Motion
New Amalgamator
Pavement Foundations
New Lid for Packing Boxes
Protection of Railway Embankments
Security of Axe Helves
New Mortising Machine
Pure Milk in Paris
Ship Building in New York
Lubricating Oil
Are the Stars Inhabited?
Crystal Palace Notes
Death of a Venerable Editor
Shortest Atlantic Passage on Record
The New Patent Bill
Patent Cases
A Meteor
Congressional Favors
List of Patent Claims
Correction—Steam and Fire Regulator
Mechanics
Manufacturers and Inventors
Coal in Kentucky
Lamps in the Houses of the Arabs
Wolf Nurses in India
A New Pin Factory
New Steam Mail Line
Departments
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To Correspondents