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    The Eighty-Tun Guns

    Mending a Fifteen-Inch Shaft at Sea

    A Disastrous Cyclone

    The Postal Laws--Amendments Needed

    The Fall River Strike

    Scientific and Practical Information - October 16, 1875

    Conservatism Versus Progress

    The Fair of the American Institute

    Two-Story Railway Cars

    Improved Ice-Making Machine

    Liquid Carbonic Acid as a Motor

    Practical Mechanism - October 16, 1875

    NUMBER XXXIII

    By Joshua Rose

    The Grange Farm Mill

    Improved Tire-Upsetting Machine

    Improved Metallic Column

    Hennaman and Shaw's Boiling Pot

    The Flamingo Plant

    Cupressus Nutkaensis

    Caladium Culture

    The Great Spotted Iris

    Atmospheric Machinery

    Decisions of the Courts - October 16, 1875

    United States Circuit Court--Southern District of New York.

    Recent American and Foreign Patents - October 16, 1875

    Canadian Patents - October 16, 1875

    Communications Received - October 16, 1875

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    • Index of Inventions - October 16, 1875

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