Scientific American Magazine Vol 2 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 2, Issue 5

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Features

Howell's Tanning Machine

How Very Long

Improved Carriage Steps

Matthews' Parallel Chain Vice

Departments

California Farming

A Strange Mistake

Phrenology

The Fashionable Lady's Prayer

New mode of Pen-making

The Indians in Texas

Go it while you're young

Ship Railroad

Hired Help

Large Railway Train

The Late Storm

Old Dover to the Young Dovers

An Oversight

The Earth

Postage

Diseased Turnips

Much Deceived

Deepest Artesian Well in the World

A Distressing Circumstance

Immense Emigration to the West

Low and High Water

Effect of Vegetable Diet

Snow Storm at Buffalo

Education

New Mode of Advertising

Treasure Found

Runaway Slaves

Humanity Triumphant

The Teetotal Mechanic

Died for Joy

A Bursted Cloud

The Town of Monterey

The Dial of Time

Third Growth of Pears

A Poor Woman's Eloquence

Printing 3000 years ago

Lake Ontario

Michigan Central Railroad

Worcester and Nashua Railroad

Information to persons having business to transact at the Patent Office

From Lake Superior to the Mississipi

Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad

The Northern Railroad

The Ten Tribes

Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad

A very Valuable Invention

New Inventions

Swelled Rails and Concave Tires

Improved Mould for Castings

Improvement in Fire Engines

Improved Windlass for Wells

Improvement in Warming Cars

Improvement in Cooking Stoves

Extraordinary Discovery

Horse-Shoe Nail making Machine

Improvement in the Piano Forte

Improved Lanterns for destroying Insects

India Rubber Camels

News from Oregon

National Association of Inventors

Important from Mexico

Invasion of Tampico

Submarine Travelling

The Ship New World

Water Power

The Steamer Isaac Newton

Influence of Rail Roads on the Weather

National Boasting

Observations on the More Recent Researches Concerning the Operations of the Blast Furnace in the Manufacture of Iron

Lectures to Office Seekers

Ingenious Device

A flourishing town in England

Great Curiosities

Making American Citizens

Murdering Language

To Correspondents

Proclamation of Commodore Sloat

Astral Chronometers

A Touching Scene

Power of the Telegraph

An Extensive Factory

Insects

A Coach under Sail

Terrifying Rats

English Railroads

Preserving Timber

New Method of Blasting Rocks with Gunpowder

A Fig Orchard

Western Steamboats

Interesting Items in History