Features
Fulminating Quicksilver
Burning of Western Steamers
A Deadly Color
Traction Engines
Brown's Hot Water Apparatus
The Uncertainties of History
Secret of Horse Taming
Recent Patented Improvements
Wear of the System by Railway Traveling
Science and Justice
Colt's Extension—Curious Rumors
Shagreen
New Patent Plow
Extraction of Copper from Ore
A Compliment
Vandenburgh's Ironing Table
Oilcloth to Imitate Leather
Manufacture and Reduction of Platinum
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable
The Late Sewing Machine Patent Suit
Vagaries of Philosophers
Patent Office Report for 1857
French Agriculture and Population
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
How to Obtain Dry Boiled Potatoes
Gilding and Plating Silk Thread
United States Circuit Court
Another Great Telegraph Enterprise
Roofing Cements
Scraps for the Museum of Science
How to Cut a Piece of Leather which will Exactly fit a Cone Drum
Mechanics
Thompson's Seed Roller
Improved Mowing Machine
Filling Teeth with Tin
Wealth of the United States
The Æolian Harp
New Alloy for Journal Boxes
Departments
- From the Editor
An Error Corrected
- Letters
Correspondents - May 15, 1858
