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Volume 13, Issue 24You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable—Its Faulty Construction
Tobacco Manufacture
Improved Furnace Bars
Paull's Ore-Washer
New Method of Bread Making
Dip of the Magnetic Needle
Emigration to the United States and British North America
Russia Made to Pay up
The Vibrations of Dams Settled
Recent Patented Improvements
Encouragement to Old Folks at Home
The Texas Grasshoppers Turned Cannibals
Experiments with Paints
Selling Coal by Weight
Re-Pointing Gold Pens
Removing Scale from Boilers
Rague's Patent Car Coupling
Steam Fire Engines
Improved Cut-Off for Steam Engines
The Commissioner's Report—How It Takes
Wine Adulteration
Artesian Wells
Artesian Wells in the Desert
Burning Fluid Recipe
False Gas Meters
Baldwin's Water Wheel
American Horse-Tamer in London
Atmospherical Phenomena
Gas-Lighting—Article I
Inspectors of Steamboats
Is Charcoal Liable to Spontaneous Combustion?
The Duke of Wellington and Railroads
The Crampon
Transmission of Fevers
New Self-Lighting Lantern
Science in Sports
Mechanics
Departments
Correspondents - February 20, 1858