Features
The Art of Dyeing--No. 2
Philadelphia Locomotives
Virginia Salt
The Barometer and Cannonading
Wire Fences
Study of Natural History
A Chemical Error
A Large Gun
How to Build Safety Ships
Wheat as an Article of Human Food
Cure for Felons
Models for the Patent Office
Interesting on Whiskers
On Painting
Manure Excavators
Improvement in Saw Mill Dogs
Boston Water--The Chemical Reports
A Retrospect for Inventors
Metropolitan Mechanics Institute
America at the French Exhibition
The Old Year and the New
Awarding of Our Prizes
Fitch, Fulton, and Livingston--A Disputed Point
Patent Claims
The Artesian Well in Charleston, S. C
Steam vs.Gunpowder
Workings of the New Steamboat Law
Loss of Patent Office Money
Tanning Composition
The Unemployed in New York
Important Items
History of Reaping Machines-- No. 13
California Platinum
Mechanics
Inventors and Manufactures
Colt's Pistols
The Cotton Crop
Application of Essence of Coal as a Substitute for 0il of Turpentine
Fire Extinguished by Steam
New Plastic Material from Peat
Departments
- Letters
To Correspondents