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Volume 2, Issue 5You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
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