Features
Iron Wire Rope
Gunpowder
Rifled Cannon Ball
An American-built Russian Corvette Launched
Boiler Explosion
The Orders of Architecture
Turmeric
Drilling Machine
Printing Presses
Signal Apparatus
Water Heated by Friction
Hemp Brake
How Coal is Sold in London
Corn Husker
Hemp Cutter
Lime Kiln
New Fire-Engine Trial
Sawing Felloes
Preventing Cars from Running off Railroad Tracks
The Distribution of Heat
Steamship Vanderbilt
The Commissioner's Decision on the Policeman's Club
Improved Method of Treating Iron Ores
Improved Diving Bell
Arrival of the Frigate Niagara
Messenger and Rehahn's Barrel Cooler
Getting Better
Andrus' Feed for Sewing Machines
Machine for Cleaning Casks
Fuels, Mineral and Vegetable
Motion and Motors
Indemnity to the Widow of an American Inventor
Trial Trip of the Adriatic
American Cotton and its Present Interests
Improved Method of Bleaching Straw Hats
Tears
Mosquito Tobacco
The Sorghum Sugar Question
Genius and Labor
Attempted Launch of the Great Eastern
Correspondents - November 28, 1857
Electrical Illumination
Scriptural Statistics
A Chimney
Nicotine
How to Harden Gypsum
“Big Ben”
Railway Accidents and a Uniform Speed
Mortar
Wild Silk
Creosote a Cure for Dysentery
Parachute for Mines
Photographing on Wood
New Anesthetic Agents
Halos
Mechanics
Inventors, Manufacturers and Farmers
The Use of Bones
Departments
- From the Editor
Acknowledgment