New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-11

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TTHE CHEAPEST and BEST MECHANICAL
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CONTENTS OF THIS wBRK's suxBEH:
(Week ending April l4).
Lum's Power Accommodating Windmill
The London FreEseape.
stoddsips Horse Rake.
Stoddarts Hay-HskeE
Hsthawsy's Method Of Changing Motion.
Articles:
New Steambost Law.
The Obstruction the Navigation Of Rivers eansed BY the
Piers Of Bridges
Discoveries in the Composition Of Gums
Science Among the Boys
Iron Combination Beams for Buildings
Steam Flowing In Texas.
Heat in Photography.
Can We See Our Own Eyesi
Glsziers' Diamonds for Mflstones
Eew.Jersey Copper.
The Dictionary Controversy.
The Dishonesty Enelsh Traders and Manufacturers
The Largest vscuuml Pan In the World.
The California Philosopher and his Steel Billiard Ball
The Value and Usefulness Of Railroads.
Etching on Steel
SNAKES
An inventor Sensitive about his Name.
An Improvement in Paper Manufacture.
"waned-A Cotton Gin"
Trial of Locomotives in South America
Peytecbnic Association Of the American Institute. ~
Column Of Varieties
Festherpg Paddle Wheels
Fire. Escapes
Judge Mason in Washington
Novel and Exciting Sport
Presentation of Gold Snuff Bex 10 an Inventor
Our Correspondence
Hoves Sewing Machine Trial
CbiIdren's Con6dence-How They Should be Treated ~
American Naval Architecture.
Weekly Summary Of Inventions
Foreign News and Markets
Remarkable Discovery at Rome.
List of Patent Claims toficial).
Notes and Queries, &C., kc
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