Scientific American Magazine

File Cutting Machine

Galvanic Decomposition of Water

The First Effect of Hearing Restored

Economy of the Arts

New Preparation of Cotton

Negative Wells

Pats on the Shoulder

A Copyright Trial

How Beans Climb

Advice to American Patentees Concerning Foreign Patents

Making Rifles of Old Muskets

A Diamond Mistake

A Rare Fossil

Steam Pile-Driving Machinery

Geometrical Models

The Friction of Machines

Which is the Best Saw Mill?--The Mulley

Labor-Saving Soap

Manufacture of Glass in England

How Wind Produces Cold

Splendid Prizes.--Paid in Cash

Improvement in Steam Engines

Hand Printing Machine

Machine for Grinding Saws

The Construction of Chimneys

An Ether Steamship Burned

The Days Before Coal

Opponents of the Woodworth Patent Extension

Mechanical Clarionet Player

Time, Space, and Power

Ancient and Modern Water Works and Tunnels

Blue and Black Indelible Ink

Explosion of a Ship by Coal Gas

Black Band Iron Ore

A Great Bell

To Bleach Sponge

Quetions for Solution

London Mechanics' Institute

Old Silver Coin

Another Metal Discovered

Photography in Paris

The Clipper Races

Sad Death of an Inventor

Tempering Steel Tools

Giant Skeleton Found

Trial of a Railroad Conductor

Important Patent Case

The Philosophy of Fascination

Steam for Raising Ships

Important Items

New Seedling Strawberry

Entomology

Manny's Reaping Machine

Renovating Furs

Literary Notices

The Cochincal Plant

Mechanics

Cure for Rheumatism

Correspondents