Scientific American/Series 1/Volume 1/Issue 1

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THE ADVOCATE OF INDUSTRY AND ENTERPRISE, AND JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.

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VOLUME I.

NEW-YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1845.

NUMBER I.

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Chapters (not listed in original)

• Front page
  • The Scientific American
  • Wife, Children and Friends
  • Attraction
  • Improved railroad cars
  • Lowell as it was and as it is; by Rev. Henry A. Miles
  • Making Articles in Horn
  • A Smoke Filter for Locomotives
  • Burning Well
  • New Article of Export
  • Extraordinary Phenomenon
  • Improvement in Oregon
  • Portrait Painting
  • Great Improvement in Lithographic Printing
  • A Sensible Horse
  • The Properties of Zinc
  • A Specimen of Vegetable Silk
  • Cause of Sound in Thunder
  • Liquor Burnt
  • Catalogue of American patents issued in 1844