Features
Rope Machine
Fires and Fire Engines
A Great Raft Lost
Artificial Production of Quinine
Depositing Alloys
Great Trial of Fire Engines
Greek Tombs
The Telegraph
Making Diamonds
Curious Fish
New Hot Air Engine
Electro-Chemistry—Batteries
Separating Silver from Lead
Converting Reciprocating Rectilinear into Rotary Motion
Hub Boring Machine
Gold Fish
Securing and Setting Harrow Teeth
Self-Closing Water Faucets
Improved School Desk
Shafting Hanger
The Water Wheel Challenge
Months of the Mississippi
The French Exhibition—Important to American Exhibitors
The New York State Fair
Baby Exhibition
Improved Chain Hook
Nova Scotia Industrial Exhibition
Beef—The Cause of Its High Price and the Remedy
Prizes, Clubs, and Mechanics' Societies
Recent Foreign Inventions
Subterranean Waters
List of Patent Claims
Important Items
Cheating in the Weight of Coal
German Cure for Jaundice
The Steam and Ether Engine
Prizes for Newspapers
Breadstuffs
Expansion of Cast-Iron by Successive Heatings
History of Reaping Machines—No. 1
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