Scientific American Magazine
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Features
Improved Portable Stump Extractor, The Chicago River Tunnel
Woodside's Patent Self-Setting Animal Trap
Manufacture of Cast Steel and Homonogeneous Iron
Special Correspondence of the Scientific American-Affairs at the Patent Office
Modern Penmanship
Telegraphing without Wires
The Bessemer Process How its Early Difficulties Were Overcome
Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items
Burying Alive-Experiments with Vester's Patent Burial Case
Recent American and Foreign Patents
Answers to Correspondents
New Publications
Patent Torch for Lamp-Lighting
Stimson's Patent Butt Hinge Door Spring
A Blind Inventor
Nitrous Oxide as an Anesthetic
The Progress of Chemical Science
Hippophagy
Small Potatoes
Improvement in Water Wheels
Official Report of Patent and Claims
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