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    Improved Steam Engine

    Exhibition of Domestic Economy in Paris

    Street Pavements

    Floating Breakwater

    Transmission of Motion

    A Lecture delivered by Coleman Sellers, at the Stevens Institute' of Technology, Hoboken, NJ — February 19th, 1872

    New Method of Propelling Canal Boats

    Portable Music Stand

    The Latest News about the Moon

    Binary Vapor Engines

    An Invention Wanted - October 19, 1872

    Advantages of a Technical Education

    The London International Exhibition of 1873

    The Fair of the American Institute

    Wood Working Machinery

    The Frozen Well of Brandon, Vermont

    Francis Lieber

    Expected Advance in Crude Petroleum

    The Moscow Industrial Exposition

    Recent American and Foreign Patents - October 19, 1872

    Copies of Patents - October 19, 1872

    Practical Hints to Inventors

    To Investors - October 19, 1872

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