Scientific American, November 3, 1855. Original complete issue.

Features

Straining Saws by Atmospheric Pressure

Coal of Recent Formation

A Man of Science Gone

Scouring Castings of Iron.--Coating with Zinc

Boring in Hard Rocks

Adulterated Food in England

Military Literature--America Ahead

Great Ocean Steamers

List of Patent Claims

Benefits of the New Steamboat Law

Lanterns for Lighthouses

Durability of Iron Ships

The Patent Office Once More-Defence of the Secretary of the Interior

The Yellow Fever

New England Industrial Exhibition

Barlow's Planing Machine.--Erratum

Mechanics Institute

California Minerals

National Agricultural Exhibition

Recent Foreign Inventions

Improved Gang Saw Mill

Important to Mechanics.--Woodworth's Planning Machine

Splendid Cash Prizes!

Reminiscences of the Paris Industrial Exhibition No. 4

Great Fair of the American Institute

The Woodworth Patent Again

Improvement in Cotton Gins

Correcting the Mariner's Compass

Departments

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