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Features
Housatonic, New York and New Haven Railroads
The Fatherless
Telegraphs
Settlement of the Niagara Bridge Question
Consolations for the Lonely
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Stone Cutting Machine
The British Museum
Planing Machine and Portable Saw Mill
The Steam Ship Panama
Changes of Vegetation and Climate
Cause of Grey Hair
Racoon in England
Curious Fact
The Value of Practical Science
Experiments in Gunnery
Postal Arrangement with Great Britain
Boiler Explosions
Another Cure for the Cholera
Aristocracy in London
Dick's Anti-Friction Press
A Cave
Coral Formations
Drawing False Horizons
Land of Plenty
Function of the Skin in Man and Animals
Dying for Another Man's Wife
Mirage in the Great Salt Desert
Improvement in Propellers
Another Flying Machine
New Musical Instrument
Carpet Looms
Everglades of Florida
Fac-Similies of Busts
List of Patents
Improved Skate
Machine for Washing Potatoes
Improvements in a Felloe Cutting Machine
Cholera Protector
Gas Light Monitor
The Ten Hour Bill
The Electric Light Again
Potterville
Steam Engines for Sale
Winter Evenings for Mechanics
Back Volumes of the Scientific American
Southern Factories
Patent Laws
Interesting Patent Case
The Scientific American
Eccentricities of Rivers
Cloth Made of Pineapple Leaves
Currents of the Ocean
Combustion.--Grates, Stoves and Ventilation
The First Locomotive
Who Are the Truly Valuable in Society
National Arbitration
A Blessed Land
Refused Package
The New Mode of Ship Building
Sulphate of Lead a Substitute for White Lead
The Best Mechanical Paper
Tinning Copper
History of the Rotary Engine
Departments
Prize Essay
To Correspondents