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Wool and Flax Fabrics
A Destructive Invention
The War
Science in Modern Warfare
A British Captain on Iron Ships
Rodman's Experiments with Gunpowder
A Word about Ourselves
De Brame's Revolving Cannon
Safety Clothing—A Sad Death
Condition of the Patent Office
Recent American Inventions
Don't Bite the Cartridges
Case's Tube for Canteens
Double Twine Box
The Ketchum Reaper Patent Extension
What Guns are Best
Hon Joseph Holt on the Supreme Bench
A Word to the South
Combination Rifles
Foreign Trade
Telegraph Cables—Best Insulating Material—Next Ocean Telegraph
Southern Harbors of the United States
Southern Honesty
Patent Claims - July 27, 1861
Instructions about European Patents with a Synopsis of the Patent Laws of the Various Countries
To Our Readers
Blasting by Electricity
Prospectus the Scientific American
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Correspondence - July 27, 1861
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