Features
Hobbs Awarded a Prize
Sealing Wax
Lime Water in Bread Making
The Rainbow Fire-Cloud
Three Cylinder Steam Engines
The Arctic—An Investigation Demanded
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy—The French Exhibition
New England Railroads
Sewing Machines
The Patent Office
A Great Gun
Is the Human Stature Diminishing
Recent Foreign Inventions
Treatment of Lead, Silver and Copper Ore
Floating Batteries for the Baltic—Shot-Proof Iron Plates
Grinding Mill
Improvement in Railroads
Machinery for Making Cut Nails
Steam Pumps
Railroad Cars
Brick Machines
Mr. Laughlin's Patent Car Brake
Improved Lifting Jack
Improved Ox Yoke
The Effects of Fires on Business
To Make Soft Water
Patent Pin Papering Case
Stationary Spy Glass
Wool and Woolen Manufactures
Steel and Glass
Artesian Wells in California
Models, Ocean Steamers
Canada Thistle—Salt
List of Patent Claims
Preparation of Indigo in Central America
American Reapers
Gunpowder
Mechanics
Inventors, and Manufacturers
History of Reaping Machines—No. 11
To Cure a Felon
Departments
- From the Editor
To Correspondents