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June 30,
1866 — Volume XV, No. 1:
- White's Improved Balanced
Governor Valve
- Crookes on Disinfectants
- Ruggles's Shaft Coupling
- Useful Plants
- Gun-Paper
- Growth of Our Navy
- Depth of Milk for Cream
- Bellows & Whitcomb's
Improved Portable Steam Engine
- The War Powers of Europe and
America
- Interesting to Oil Men and
Miners
- New Steamboat Fuel
- Low's Shingle Machine
- The Non-Recoil Gun
- The Ames Gun
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Iron-clad Ships
- Honors to Mechanical
Engineering
- Vesuvius Getting Lively
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- Tanger's Improved Steam Roller
- Allen's Improved Diaphragm
Valve
- The Adaptation of Implements to
Labor and the Laborer
- The Culture and Manufacture of
Silk
- The Value of Timber
- Paris Universal Exhibition
- Patents in Congress Again
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending June 17, 1866
- Reissues
- Dole's Improved Saw Gummer
- The Largest Farm in the World
- Hart's Cravat Holder
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July 7,
1866 — Volume XV, Number 2:
- Connery & Pennypacker's
Improved Steam Boiler
- Locomotive Boilers
- Why a Gun Becomes Hot on Firing
- Foreign Scientific News
- An Extraordinary Railroad
Disaster
- Ryerson's Churn
- The Spectroscope and Its
Revelations
- A Great Railway Enterprise, The
Imperial Mexican Railway
- Variable Star
- McDonough's Caloric Engine
- To Prevent Chafing
- An Ancient Stove
- Christian's Device for Oil
Wells
- Glass Brick Mold
- Our New Dress
- Messrs. Alphen, of Paris,
Diamond Merchants
- Compilation of the Eighth
Census
- A Weak Steam Boiler
- Circular Saws
- Notes and Queries
- New Inventions
- Law Applicable to Reissue of
Letters Patent
- New Publications
- Special Notices
- Bushing Adjusting and
Lubricating Millstones
- Weston's Improvement in
Millstones
- Water as Fuel
- Olmsted's Patent Drill Chuck
- Water-proof Enamel for Card
Photographs
- Educated Mechanics
- Free and Easy Legislation of
Patents
- A Four-Tool Planer
- A Just Measure
- Aluminium Armor
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending June 24, 1966
- Reissues
- Henke's Improved Gage Cock
- Rice & Miller's Improved
Self-Lubricating Journal Box
- The "Galaxy" periodical
- University Law School
-
July
14, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 3:
- Improved Quartz Stamper
- An English Ship-builder on
American Engines
- The Canadian Patent Laws
- Lead in Southern Illinois
- Cement for Millstones
- Oil-Mining Machinery Wanted
- Sodium Amalgamation
- Profits on Tea
- Emerson's Swage for Spreading
and Sharpening Saw Teeth
- Notes on New Discoveries and
New Applications of Science
- The "Miantonomoh" at Queenstown
- The Great Trial of Agricultural
Machines
- The Atlantic Cable
- The Preservation of Timber from
the Teredo
- Large and Small Pulleys
- Trouble with an Air Furnace
- Breech-Loading Rifles
- Magnetic Electricity
- Let Americans use American
Tools
- Corrosive Action of Lead on
Iron
- How to Find Variation and
Attraction of the Mariner's Compass
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- Adair's Lamp Chandelier for
Burning Kerosene
- Trial of One of the New
Frigates
- Thread from Cotton-Plant Stalks
- Irwin's Lamp Top
- The Trichiniasis
- Locomotive Boilers
- Vanilla
- Man-Holes and Safety Valves
- Building of Roads for Common
Travel
- Canadian Patents
- A Theory in Regard to
Rinderpest, Pleuro-Pneumonia and Cholera
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending July 3, 1866
- Reissues
- Taylor & Cox's Improved
Beehive
- Hotchkiss's Towel Rack
- The Sewing Machine and the Shoe
Manufacture
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July
21, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 4:
- Davenport's Improved
"Common-Sense" Washing Machine
- Cheap Ice Pitcher
- Steam on Common Roads
- Production of Beet-Root Sugar
- Gun Tubes
- Great Trial of Agricultural
Implements, Movers, Reapers, etc., at Auburn, NY
- Testing a Turret
- Balloonists in Peril
- A New System of Digits
- Postal Orders
- Self-Registering Barometer
- Chimogene -- A New Anesthetic
- Chappell's Adjustable Toilet
Glass
- The Proposed Metric System
- Cause of the Failures of the
Atlantic Cable
- Transmission of Power by Belts
- To Keep a Saw in Order
- Coffee Making Again
- Tape-Worm and Pork Eaters
- Measuring Logs
- Weight of Oils
- Variation in Form Not
Patentable
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- The Roberts Petroleum Torpedo
- Biggs and Flinn's Hydrant
- Are Iron Safes Safe?
- Experiments with Nitro-Glycerin
- Fire Crackers Ought to be
Prohibited
- Cryptography -- A Translation
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending July 10, 1866
- Reissues
- Nevius's Improved Hollow Grate
Bar for Steam Boiler Furnaces
- The Monitor Engines
- Pitman's Animal Trap
- Knoepke's Wash Basin
-
July
28, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 5:
- Wolliston's Improved Brick
Machine
- On Flying Machines
- Miscellaneous Summary
- The Children of Mechanics
- The Steam Engine Indicator
- Rifle Shooting
- An Immense Temple of the Muses
- Removing Hyposulphites
- Spaulding's Patent Broom Head
- Queen Victoria's Portrait for
Mr. Peabody
- A Strange Inconsistency
- Silicated Whitewash
- Useful Recipes
- Pressure in Boilers
- Home-Made Aluminum
- The European Squadron
- The Heated Term --- How To Keep
Cool
- Photographic
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- The Markets
- Important Decision in
Interference Case
- Parsons's Improved Car Coupling
- Jacobs's Improved Piston
Packing
- Importance of Rags
- The Production of Timber
- The Needle Gun
- Our Commercial Marine
- Water Supply for Philadelphia
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending July 17, 1866
- Reissues
- Holt & Thompson's Improved
Oiler for Mechanics
- Bannister's Improved Gas-Pile
Tongs
- Patents in Canada
-
August
4, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 6:
- Connett's Improved Shingle
Machine
- tunnel Under Chicago River
- How Burglars Operate on Safes
- The Telegraph
- Our Special Correspondence
- A Fine Tower Clock
- A Poisonous Spider
- Boots and Shoes
- The Manufacture of Haircloth
- Heavy Forgings
- Granulation of Blast-furnace
Slags
- Locust Stings
- Miscellaneous Summary
- The Advantage of Good Tools
- Fleas
- Influence of the Mechanic in
Politics
- Chemical Notes: Artificial
Diamonds — Preservation of Lemons — Preparation of Bones for
Manure
- Telegraphic Cable
- Millstone Cement
- Keeping Circular Saws in Order
- Mills for Grinding Paints and
Printers' Inks
- The Heating of Guns by
Concussion
- Cementing Tin and Glass
- Foreign Items
- New Inventions
- New Publications
- Notes and Queries
- Miller's Improved
Breech-Loading Cannon
- New Oxide of Magnesium Light
- Appleby and Gould's Lamp
Chimney
- Report on the Springfield Rifle
- The "Lord Warden's" Engines
- Inventors -- Their Labors and
Rewards
- The Force of Wind
- Disinfecting by Steam
- Destruction of a Bridge
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending July 24, 1866
- Reissues
- McGill's Improved Green-Corn
Cutter
- Rowell's Movement
- How Gutta Percha is Obtained
- Singular Freak of Lightning
- Nell's Adjustable Spring
Bracket for Window Shades
- Improved Cartridge Box
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August
11, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 7:
- Swain's Improved Turbine Wheel
- Notes on Boilers
- Our Special Correspondence
- Foreign Scientific News
- Photography and the
Kaleidoscope
- Photographing a Volcano
- The Prussian Army
- Power of Lightning
- thunder Storms -- Protection
against Lightning
- Breech-Loaders vs.
Muzzle-Loading Firearms
- Board Measure
- The Mississippi Levees
- Hail Storm Phenomenon
- An Unbeliever in Breech-loading
Firearms
- Millers Please Notice
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- New Publications
- The Markets
- The Atlantic Telegraph
- Birdsall's Pulley
- Toshach's Sash Support
- Patent Swindling
- Success the Popular Estimate of
Value
- An Absurd Tool
- Important Decision -- Extension
of Tanner's Car-Brake Patent
- The Charges of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company
- General Grant has been promoted
to "General of the Armies of the United States"
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending July 31, 1866
- Reissues
- Elliott's Improved Stove
Attachment
- Hodgins's Improved Collar
Fastening
- The Great Organ at Plymouth
Church
- Primitive Beehive
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August
18, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 8:
- Caryl's Improved Elevated
Atmospheric Railway
- The First Boring for Oil in
Pennsylvania
- Sweet Corn all the Year Round
- Profits on Sleeping Cars
- American Cast Steel
- Cutting Garments by Machinery
- Smelting of Lake Superior
Copper Ore
- Obtaining Soda from Common Salt
- Necrosis Produced by Tobacco
- A Disinfecting Filter
- Foreign Cotton
- Pine's Toning Process
- A Unique Specimen
- Heating of Guns in Firing
- Measuring and Regulating
Temperature
- The California Target
- Cement for Millstones
- Old Rubber Car Springs
- Pyrophorus
- the Piston of a Steam Engine
- Bridge Walls in Boiler Setting
- Modern Methods of Business
- The Opium Trade
- Miscellaneous Summary
- New Inventions
- New Publications
- Stover's Improved Corn
Cultivator
- Rain Gages and Rain Fall
- Holt and Thompson's Improved
Oiler
- Protecting Buildings Against
Lightning
- Subdivision of Labor
- Elevated Railway for New York
City
- Counseling Our Enemies
- Report of the Revenue
Commission
- An Abattoir for New York
- Spontaneous Combustion of Coal
on Board Ships
- "Gas for Less than Nothing"
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending August 7, 1866
- Reissues
- Bailey's Churn
- Mutual Dependence
- Elliott's Sash Support
- The Silk Spider of South
Carolina
- Notes and Queries
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August
25, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 9:
- Kinkel & Hubbe's New Method
of Propelling Steam Vessels
- The Domestic Sources of cholera
and the Means of Avoiding Them
- The Brazilian Exhibition
- The Rebuilding of Charleston
- Cable Business
- the Prussian Needle Gun
- Insurance Against Steam-Boiler
Explosions
- An Inefficient Boiler
- Petroleum in England
- Riggs's Improved Sorghum
Evaporator
- Precipitation of Metals from
their Saline Solutions by Means of Magnesium
- Sea-going Monitors
- Peruvian Guano
- Wedging of Gases when Confined
- National Academy of Sciences
- Bleeding from the Nose
- Photographing Cannon Balls
- Developing Heat
- Fleas and Mosquitoes
- Steam Fire Engines
- Preserving Green Peas
- Agricultural Exhibitions
- The Markets
- New Inventions
- Special Notices
- Shaw's Dead-Stroke Power Hammer
- King's Oiler
- Artists and Artisans
- Tools For Special and for
General Use
- Engines of the Steamship Rising
Star
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending August 14, 1866
- Reissues
- Gleason's Improved
Spoke-turning Lathe
- Thompson's Improved Connecting
Link
- Boys Using Tobacco
-
September
1, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 10:
- Douglas's Improved Regulator
for Steam Engines
- Gun Trial in England
- a Week on Oil Creek
- History of the Ram
"Dunderberg's" Machinery
- Petroleum Formed from Seaweed
- The Pen -- Its Construction and
Use
- The Manufacture of Lead Pencils
- Manufacture of White Lead
- "Well-Rotted Manure"
- Salt -- Its Uses and Production
- Dyeing Fabric and Yarn
- Report on Disinfectants
- Chemical Notes
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Theory of Tornadoes
- A Simple Code of Signals Wanted
- Lightnin-Rod Insulation
- Pickling Castings
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- New Publications
- The Prussian Celebrated Needle
Gun
- Becker's Metallic Roofing
- Mechanical Nonsense
- The Inflammability of Petroleum
- Breathing -- Out of Doors and
in the House
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending August 21, 1866
- Reissues
- Smith's Improved Fusible Plus
for Steam Boilers
- Improved Mangle
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September
8, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 11:
- Clark's Non-Freezing and
Non-Wasting Hydrant
- Rules on the Metric System
- The Effect of Sunshine on Fire
- A Life-Saving Machine
- Enlargement Test for Ordnance
- Breech-loaders and Patched
Rifle Balls
- Sawing Lumber
- Meerschaum and Amber
- Hardening Long Planing Knives
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Dixon's Improved Planing
Machine
- The Power of Infection
- The Atlantic Cable
- Filling for Millstones
- Hagenmeyer's Improved Oil Cup
- The Lindner and Remington
Rifles
- The Peat Manufacture
- The French Exposition
- Insulation of Lightning Rods
- Wood on the Prairies
- Timber on the Prairies
- Cement for Millstones
- Saws -- Lateral Motion
- How to Banish Fleas
- Simple code of Signals
- Safety Valves
- Poisonous Bites -- Mad Stones
- A Big Snake Story
- Encourage the Small Things
- Breaking of Watch Springs
- How to Make Soldering Fluid
- Broadwell's Improved Gun and
Projectile
- Carbolic Acid the Most Useful
Disinfectant
- the Duty of Recording
Experiments
- Transverse Force of Explosive
Gases in Guns
- do Animals Require Salt
- A Kerosene Telegraph
- Skating at the Sea Side
- Railroads and Telegraphs in
South America
- Improved Well-boring Machine
- Polar Ice and the Gulf Stream
- Place of the Piston when the
Crank is Vertical
- Notes and Queries
- New Inventions
- New Publications
- Patent Claims, for the Week
Ending August 28, 1866
- Reissues
- The Markets
- Tully & Reece's Portable
Liquor and Transfer Pump
- A Blowing Cave
- Elastic Cartridges
- Improvement in Fire Engines
- Life Preserver
- White's Mop Wringer
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September
15, 1866 — volume XV, No. 12:
- Duckworth's Patent Fancy Loom
- Twenty-Five Years -- A Retrospect
- Williams's Theory of the Diffusion of Steam
- Moire Antique
- The North Pole
- Improvements Going on South
- Sawing Lumber
- The Change of Leaves
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Good Steel Pens
- How Grain is Stored in New York
- Eversol's Screw Driver
- Steam as a Motor
- A New Cement
- Imperishable Gut Cord and Belt
- How to Put a Wood Saw in Good Order
- Steam Fire Engines
- Must a Patent Dealer Take Out a License?
- Welding Cast Iron and Steel
- The Maynard Breech-loader vs. Muzzle-loaders
- A Signal Code
- An Inefficient Boiler
- The Explosion of Lamps
- Softening Chilled Iron
- Cold Bleaching Process
- Fire in a Coal Mine
- American Antiquities
- War and a Nation's Debt
- Telegraphic Blunders
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- Strait's Improved Suspension Car Truck
- Keener's Paten Hat Rack
- Harlow's Ash Sifter
- The Recovery of the Cable of 1865 -- Deep-water Fishing
- Fumigating
- Rancid Butter for Cooking
- Preservation of Wood against Decay
- American Steel
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending September 5, 1866
- Reissues
- Greene's Improved Wood-Bundling Press
- Cary's Improved Patent Earth Borer
- Securing Lumber on Wagons
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September 22, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 13:
- Grier & Boyd's Machine for Twisting Augers
- Nitro-glycerin
- The "Bellerophon"
- The Art of Dining
- Items from the British Association
- Improvements in the Construction of Artesian Wells
- Armor-plate Fastenings
- Austrian Manufactures Injured by the War
- Interesting Acoustic Phenomenon
- Reproduction of Drawings, etc.
- The Iron and Copper Resources of Great Britain
- Patent Hair Restoratives
- Miscellaneous Summary
- English Railway Carriage Signals
- The Breaking of Watch Springs
- Myer's Stopper and Discharge Spout
- Traction Engines and Roads
- On Coloring Photographic Slides for the Magic Lantern
- Fire Lighting in Olden Times
- Printing of Woven Fabrics
- Unscientific Inventors
- Steps for Turbine Wheels
- Black Oxide of Manganese
- Measuring and Regulating Temperature
- A Meteorological Phenomenon
- New Inventions
- Clark's Improved Boiler Furnace
- Hogan's Improved Nail Extractor
- Shoddy -- Its Material and Manufacture
- The Onondaga Salt Works
- The Final Fate of the Universe
- A Word to Inventors and Patentees
- The Anglo-French Channel Tunnel
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending September 11, 1866
- Reissues
- Notes and Queries
- The Markets
- McGill's Improved Ship Windlass and Coil Separator
- Huntoon's Improved Combined Steam Engine
- Age of Stone in China
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September 28, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 14:
- Cross's Improved Boiler Feeder
- An Iron Mountain in Sweden
- The Palliser Gun
- Manufactures as a Means of Wealth
- Cultivation and Manufacture of Osiers
- Direct Trade with Europe
- Newspaper Enterprise
- Three Processes for Preserving Meat
- The Volume of Paper Money
- Polytechnic Association of the American Institute
- The Throttle Valve
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Submarine Photograph
- New Material for the Production of Gas
- Dunn's Improved Wagon Jack
- Foreign Scientific News
- The Bremen Rose-Wein
- Bamberger's Improved Axle Gage
- The Doctrine of the Correlation of the Physical Forces
- Whence Comes Indigo?
- The Lightning Rod Question
- Effects of Sunshine on Fire
- Concrete for Building Purposes
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- Interesting Decision -- Combination Tools are Patentable
- Capron and Winchell's Improved Brick Machine
- Belladonna an Antidote for Opium
- Inflammability of Coal Gas
- Newbury's Shoe Cleaner
- The Influence of Science
- Useful Improvements Not Opposed to the Harmony of Nature
- The Toy Business in this country
- Thickness of Boiler Plates
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending September 18, 1866
- Reissues
- Cavender's Improved Table-Leaf Supporter
- Manning's Improved Boom and Gaff
- Gas Odors
- Pressed and Cast Bullets
- Test for Acids
- Conarroe's Cane Knife and Stripper
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October 6, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 15:
- Kasson's Improved Cooking Apparatus
- The First Ship Building in this Country
- Chilled Shot
- Extracting the Metals from Auriferous Quartz
- Monitors and Heavy Guns in Sweden
- Burning of a Friction Match
- Target Test with Large Guns
- Honor to Whom Honor is Due
- Polytechnic Association of the American Institute
- Cooper Union Free School
- Important to Southern Inventors
- Manlove and Green's Corn Husker, Harvester, and Stacker
- Concerning American Steel
- The Power for Circular Saws
- Railway over the Alps
- Preservation of Wood against Decay
- Chimney Drafts
- Fire and Sunshine Experiments
- Foreign Scientific News
- An Opportunity for American Gun Makers
- The Grasshopper Scourge
- New Inventions
- Inventions Patented in England by Americans
- The Markets
- Ellis and Albertson's Self-Setting Animal Trap
- Pettit's Improved Water Closet
- The Broken Atlantic Cable
- The Atlantic Telegraph -- Its Present and Probable Uses
- Progress of the Pacific Railroad
- Coal, its Origin and Nature
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending September 25, 1866
- Reissues
- Zinn's Self-Adjusting Railroad Switch
- Litzenberg's Adjustable Shoe Calks
- Railroad in the Alps
- Andrews's Lifting and Force Pump
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October 13, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 16:
- The "Whittingham" Sanitary Moist Warm-Air Furnace
- The Use of Time and Uselessness of Hurry
- The Worcester Mechanics' Fair
- The Target Experiments at Fortress Monroe
- The Atlantic Cable of 1865
- Jungles on Fire
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Thomas's Improved Bark Mill
- Steamship Commerce on the Atlantic
- The Suez Canal
- The Mad Stone
- Morse's Stovepipe Furnace
- Grain Elevators -- Grain Trade
- Insulation of Lightning Rods
- Measuring and Regulating Temperatures
- On Lightning Conductors
- Shot Guns
- New Inventions
- Inventions Patented in England by Americans
- Rodgers's Improved Bolt Cutter
- Flora's Sliding Parallel Vise
- New Northern European Steamship Line
- Tuning Pianos
- The Commissioner of Patents
- Is Steam a Gas?
- The Circular Saw Question
- Safety Valves
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending October 2, 1866
- Reissues
- Ketchum's Gate Supporter and Latch
- A Queer Boiler "Explosion"
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October 20, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 17:
- Williams's Improved Elevator for Mines
- The Worcester Mechanics' Fair
- The First American Fire-arms
- West Albany Locomotive Works
- Jamaica -- A Field for Inventors
- Miscellaneous Summary
- The Arabic Numerals Representative, and Not Arbitrary Characters
- Manufactures in Hartford
- Ruth and De Long's Improved Funnel Drum or Radiator
- Inlaying
- A Singular Land Slide
- Inventors' Commission Agency
- Nitro-Glycerin
- Place of the Piston when the Crank is Vertical
- Polytechnic Association of the American Institute
- New Publications
- Notes and Queries
- New Inventions
- Inventions Patented in England by Americans
- The Markets
- General Tompkins's Improved Wheeled Litter and Ambulance
- The Rose
- Vulnerability of Iron-Clads -- The Shoeburyness Experiments
- Cleanliness of Tools
- Russ's Patent Knife and Scissors Sharpener
- The Combustion of Coal -- Economy in Fuel
- Machinery versus Manipulation
- Mechanics' and Agricultural Fair
- Fruit Jar
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending October 9, 1866
- Reissues
- Oliver's Improved Hedge Trimmer
- Allen's Weeding or Scuffle Hoe
- Gschwind and Grether's Combination Hook and Holder
- The late Marine Disasters
-
October 27, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 18:
- Seeley's Improved Brick Machine
- Homogeneousness of Steel -- Tires, Axles, and Rails
- Gas Purification
- Separating Phosphorous from Metals
- Punched Tubes and Gun Barrels
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Perry's Patent Ventilating Boot
- The Paris Universal Exposition
- Convention of the American Social Science Association
- Letter from a "Reb"
- Persistence of the Different Colors on the Retina
- The Channel Tunnel
- Schneider's Artificial Leg
- American Iron and Steel
- Preservation of Wood
- A Universal Signal Code
- A New Way of Cutting Glass
- Experiments in Raising Vessels
- Notes and Queries
- New Inventions
- bishop and Gladden's Improved Cane Stripper
- Writing Ink
- Olmsted's Spring-Top Oiler
- Water Elevator
- A System of Gages for Iron Work
- Chilled Shot and the Shoeburyness Experiments
- South American Beef in England
- The Simpson Process
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending October 16, 1866
- Reissues
- Inventions Patented in England by Americans
- La Baw and Campbell's Improved Wagon and Carriage Spring
- Bronzing Gun Barrels
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November 3, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 19:
- Sargent's Improved Magnetic Safe and Bank Lock
- Method of Lighting Theatres
- Heating Railway Trains
- A Singular Quality in Steel
- Abattoir for New York
- The Calcium Light in War
- A New Method of Generating Gas
- A New Kind of Gunpowder
- The Pneumatic Railway
- Postal Money Orders, and Bankers' Drafts
- The Madstone -- A Delusion
- Popular Photographs
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Widgeon's Patent Boiler Feeder
- Vulnerability of Iron-Clads
- The Anthistometer or Measurer of Resistance
- Squaring the Circle
- Salvation of Ships in a Gale
- Iron and Steel
- Sympathetic Inks
- New Inventions
- The Markets
- Notes and Queries
- Heald and Sisco's Improved Rotary Pump
- English and American Guns
- Photo-Medallions
- The Use of Fuel -- Management of Bituminous Coal
- Boils Explosions Not Always Mysterious
- A Uniform Money Standard
- New Publications
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending October 23, 1866
- Reissues
- P. E. and J. P. Gruger's Improved Patent Railway Station Indicator
- The Photographic Art
- Molds for Casting Iron, Steel, etc.
- Peck's Patent Patched Bullet
- Petroleum and Sperm Oil as Lubricators
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November 10, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 20:
- Le Pelley's Improved Ship's Rudder
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Charming by Serpents
- Engraving for Calico Printing
- Recipe for Curing Meat
- Stanton's Improved Upright Lever Set for Saw Mills
- Polytechnic Association of the American Institute
- Important Decision -- Does "Cash" Mean Gold?
- Durfee's Improved Horse Collar
- The November Meteors
- Staub's Improved Chuck Saw
- Fraser Guns
- Porcelain and Opalescent Glass
- A Singular Quality in Steel
- Inventions Patented in England by Americans
- Notes and Queries
- New Inventions
- Corbin's Patent Bag Holder
- Nitro-Glycerin as a Substitute for Gun-Powder
- Heald's Float Valve
- Transportation of Fresh Meats to Market
- Ventilation -- Its Necessity and Neglect
- The Arabic Numerals
- The "Scientific" in Texas
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending October 30, 1866
- Reissues
- Lee's Improved Metallic Cotton-Bale Tie
- Colors in Photography
- Spontaneous Explosion of Kerosene Oil
- Important Patent Case Decided
- Intensification of Negatives after Varnishing
- Gaining Power by a Lever
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November 17, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 21:
- Thompson's Improved Patent Barrel Machinery
- Railway Engineering in London
- Machine Printing of Calico
- Miscellaneous Summary
- Wynkoop's Improved Double-Power Wheel
- The Most Useful of Trees
- The Worcester Improve Patent Globe Valve
- Notes on Steam and the Steam Engine
- Inclosing Electricity
- A Green Meteor
- Use and Abuse of Nitro-Glycerin
- Interesting Boiler Experiments
- Repairing Cracked Circular Saws
- Correction of Errors in Transposition of Figures
- Notes and Queries
- New Inventions
- Kratzer's Improved Combination Water Power
- Improved Mode of Distilling
- Fay's Improved Saw-Horse
- Signals on English Railway Trains
- Co-partnership of Capital and Labor
- Prevention of Boiler Explosions
- American War Engineering
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending November 6,1866
- Reissues
- Berny's Combination Chair and Cradle
- A Very Singular Explosion
- Apparent Position of the Sun
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November 24, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 22:
- Hutchinson's Patent Gang-Plow
- Water-Spouts in the Mountains
- The Needle Gun
- Japan
- New Safe Lock
- Statistics of Photography
- The Breweries of Chicago
- Dundas Cultivator Reissue
- Snow's Improved Governor Valve
- Banquet to Cyrus W. Field
- The Arabic Numerals
- Position of the Piston when the Crank is Vertical
- Scientific Blasting -- Nitro-Glycerin
- Circulation in Steam Boilers
- Notes and Queries
- Extension Notices
- New Inventions
- Kinsey's Improved Railway Turntable Pivot
- Erie Basin Dry Dock Company
- Williams's Potato Washer
- "Time will Tell"
- Progress of the Pacific Railway
- Enlargement of the Scientific American for 1867
- Wrought Scrap Iron for Forgings
- Change in the Style of Patents
- Place of the Counterbalance on Saw Mill Sashes
- Practical Hints
- Patent Office Decision -- Cultivators
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending November 13, 1866
- Reissues
- Coddington's Improved Patent Saw-Mill Trestle
- Chilled Railway Wheels
- American Railway Wheels in England
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December 1, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 23:
- Wilson's Improved Automatic Churn
- Effect of the Removal of Forests
- Railway Engineering in London
- Practical Hints
- The Origin and Composition of Peat
- Miscellaneous Summery
- Milburn's Improved Patent Revolving Gun
- Exports of the World
- Colors in their Relation to Artificial Light
- Producing Printing Surfaces by the Aid of Photography
- Practical Surgery in Cases of Accident
- Soluble Glass
- The Usefulness of Salt
- American Institute -- Polytechnic Branch
- Notes and Queries
- New Inventions
- Inventions Patented in England by Americans
- Strahan's Drill Rest for Grinding
- Myer's Draw Knob
- Rehorn's Patent Sadiron
- The Great Iron Belt
- Public Works in Holland
- "A Very Eminent Officer of the United state Navy" on Iron-Clads
- Ventilation of the National Capitol
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending November 20, 1866
- Reissues
- Thyng's Improved Patent Printing Gage
- Coal, Iron, and Oil
- Wolfenden's Universal Box for Turning Lathes
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December 8, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 24:
- Shaw and Justice's Improved Dead-Stroke Hammer
- Trials of Breech-loading Guns in Vienna
- The Oil District's of Canada
- Silver Plating
- American Institute -- Polytechnic Branch
- A Self-adjusting Telegraph Instrument Wanted
- Circular Skids
- Manufacture and Combustion of Peat
- Thomas's Patent Tube Cutter
- The Tricennial Meteoric Shower
- Utilization of Waste Substances
- Manufacture of Pure Acetic Acid on Acetates from Empyreumatic Wood Vinegar
- Coloring Ivory
- Dyeing of Horn
- changes in Steel by Friction and Heat
- Plumbago in Georgia
- Welding Mixture
- Russian Railroads and the Krupp Guns
- New Inventions
- Notes and Queries
- Zillier's Improved Patent Screw Plate
- Abbott's Flax Breaker and Dresser
- The Action of Acids on Steel
- Practical Hints
- The Paris Exhibition Building
- Modern Medicine
- The Steam Ferries of New York
- Southern Fair
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending November 27, 1866
- Reissues
- Stillwell's Improved Stove Tongs
- Scott's Improved Fastening for Wagon Bows
- Spencer's Church Dasher
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December 15, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 25:
- McGill and Gibson's Improved Apparatus for Well Drilling, Pumping, and Hoisting
- Reduction of Railway Charges
- Interesting Official Statistics
- A New Caustic
- Rolling Stock of English Railways
- Patentees in France
- Tunnel under the English Channel
- The Great Water Tunnel Under Lake Michigan
- Chicago Water-Works Tunnel
- Galileo's Instruments
- English Hop Culture
- Mellon's Improved Locomotive Tire
- The Crank and Piston in Setting Valves
- Water Spouts
- New Publications
- Notes and Queries
- Business and Personal
- New Inventions
- The Markets
- Salmon's Improved Portable Wood-Sawing Machine
- Photographs on Porcelain
- Champlin's Patent Ice-Cream Freezer
- Reality versus Sham
- The Dangers in Storing Petroleum
- Parrott Gun Case Decided
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending December 4, 1866
- Reissues
- Lindergreen's Improved Device for Steering children's Sleds
- Clark's Improved Combined Driving Reins and Check
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December 22, 1866 — Volume XV, No. 26:
- Bell's Improved Steam Generator Boiler
- Bayliss's Improved Tweer Iron
- Tea Culture in America
- Fogs, Clouds, and Rain, in the Mountains
- The Cultivation and Uses of Forest Trees
- The McCall and Sloper Process for Preserving Fresh Meats
- American Institute -- Polytechnic Branch
- The Law of Mariotte -- Its Relations to the Liquefaction of Gases
- Area of Steam Ports
- The Canada Gold
- To Measure Belting
- It Inspires the Habit of Thinking
- Position of the Piston when the Crank is Vertical
- Goulding's Patent Case
- The Cotton Manufacture
- Rifle Practice
- Scattering Shot-Gun
- Liquefaction of Carbonic Acid Gas
- European Railway Tariffs
- Miscellaneous Summary
- New Inventions
- Business and Personal
- Veber's Colter Clearer, Device for Clearing Stubble from Plows
- Parsons's Device for Lubricating Axles of Vehicles
- Life of Steel and Iron Rails
- Coffee and its Adulterations
- Practical Hints
- Wellington's Patent Water Closet
- The Value of a Scientific and Mechanical Journal
- Improved Pier and Warehouse System for New York
- Volkman's Self-holding Plow
- Subterranean Photography
- Patent Claims, for the Week Ending December 11, 1866
- Reissues
- Inventions Patented in England by Americans
- Index to Volume XV