Table of contents

Spirit of Recent Foreign Inventions - p3

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-3a

New Motive Power and the Spiritual Rappings - p3

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-3b

Relic of the Revolution - p3

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Perforation of a leaden Water Cistern by Insects - p3

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-3d

The Partition Tumbler - p3

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-3e

Benefit to Horses - p3

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-3f

Improved Clothes Wringer - p4

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-4

Machine for Making Blinds - p4

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-4a

Improvement in Making Iron Pipes - p4

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-4b

Godfrey's Crystal Bee Palace - p4

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-4c

To our Cotemporaries - p4

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Our New Volume - p5

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-5

Patent Office Report for 1850—No. 1 - p5

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-5a

Interesting Patent Case - p5

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-5b

An Improvement Wanted for Ginning Sea Island Cotton - p5

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-5c

Sale of the Yacht America - p5

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-5d

Fayettville, N. C - p5

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-5e

Assyrian Antiquities - pp5 - 6

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A New Material for Lighthouses, Sea-Walls, Paving, &C - p6

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-6

Spontaneous Combustion of Hay Stacks - p6

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-6a

The Floating Bridge across Lake Champlain Completed - p6

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-6b

The First Locomotive in America - p6

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-6c

To Correspondents - p7

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-7

Back Numbers and Volumes - p7

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-7a

New Edition of the Patent Laws - p7

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-7b

Patent Claims - p7

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-7c

Postage on Books - p7

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-7d

Fire Engines - p8

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-8

A discovery in Surgery - p8

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-8a

Marine Glue - p8

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-8b

Ancient and Modern Strong Men - p8

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-8c

New Prospectus to Mechanics - p8

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09201851-8d