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    Improved Machine for Polishing Moldings and Surfaces

    Fire Extinguisher Trials

    The United States Metal-Testing Board

    The Scientific American Supplement

    Mind in Plants

    Scientific and Practical Information - March 18, 1876

    Artificial Ice Manufacture

    By P. H. Vander Weyde

    Improved Cloth-Folding Machine

    Distilling Stearin

    Improved Scroll or Reciprocating Saw

    Improved Head Muff

    Production of Light from Mechanical Force

    Improved Apparatus for Testing: Illuminating Oils

    Bedell's Rapid Transit Wrench

    New Mode of Docking Vessels

    The Opium Poppy

    The Owl Parrot

    Decisions of the Courts - March 18, 1876

    Files, Fuses, and Low Water Alarms

    New Agricultural Inventions - March 18, 1876

    Recent American and foreign Patents - March 18, 1876

    Communications Received - March 18, 1876

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      Correspondence - March 18, 1876

    • Recommended

      New Books and Publications - March 18, 1876

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      Notes and Queries - March 18, 1876

    • Business and Personal - March 18, 1876

    • Index of Inventions - March 18, 1876

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