Volume 1, Issue 11
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Features
A Chapter on Candles
A Japanese Printing-Office
The Engineering of Spiders
Rain at Different Elevations
Hot-Air Ovens for Iron Furnaces
Improved Hydraulic Elevator
Howell's Improved Retaining Hinge
Simple Plan of Oiling Journals
Cannel Coal
Kyanized Timber
Paints for Roofing and Other Purposes
Artesian Wells Denounced
Pittsburgh Coal-Oil
Clockwork Lock
Ship Canal Across the Isthmus of Darien
Telegraphic Exploring Expedition to the Northern Atlantic Ocean
Experiments With Coal-Burning Locomotives
All Men are Chemists
A Column of Interesting Varietie
Marine Steam Ram
Testing Car-Wheels and Rails
Improved Re-Sawing Machine
Imitating Marble
The Electric Art Applied to Printing
India-Rubber Interests of the United States
City Railroad Improvements
Action of Water on Lead Pipes
Remarkable Patent Case
How to Tell the Character of Past Seasons.
Brilliant Atmospheric Phenomena
New Inventions
Foreign Summary-Metals and Markets
New York Assay Office
Patent Claims
Issued From the United States Patents Office for the week ending august 30, 1859.