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INDEX TO VOL. II, PART I.

A.

Address to Subscribers, 1
Advantages of Machinery and Manufactures,
310

Agriculture, Population employed in, account
of, 310

Altered dimensions, copying with-of the Pen-
tagraph-by turning-Rose engine turning-
Copying dies-Engine for copying busts
Printing from copper plates-Methods of,
described-Machine for producing engrav-
ings from medals described--Lace, made by
caterpillars, 374, 375
Agricultural Schools, account of, 70, 150, 200
66 Fair in New-York, 297

66 Society in Massachusetts, 152
Agriculture in New-York State, 248

66

66

86

Progress of, in England, 71

in Scotland, 118

French and English compared, 265

Animal power, estimated, 229

Antwerp, Map of the Seat of War at, 28
Apple Trees, method of managing, 8
Aquatinta Engraving, account of, 133
Architecture, supposed origin of the Corinthian
Order, 277

66

History of, 309, 327

Ashes, used for destroying insects, 102
Attraction, cause of, explained, 296

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C.
Calculating by Machinery, Babbage's plan, 262
Canals, list of in Massachusetts, 5-Receipts in
Ohio line, 5-Receipts of Albany and New-
York line, 22-Receipts on Seneca and Cayu-
ga line, 37-Rideau, 84-On the Importance
of, 99-Chesapeake and Ohio, 100, 148, 168,
209-Report of Commissioners on the Funds
of, 40-Louisville and Portland, importance
of, 102-Crooked Lake, remarks on, 131-
Receipts on Albany line, 149-of Goetha,
149, 193-Reports of Commissioners in Ohio,
161-in Great Britain, 178, 194-Tolls of, in
New-York State, 182-Method of Conduct-
ing Surveys of, in New-York State, 338-
i Loans for, 353-Accelerated Movement on,
357-Commissioners Report of the State of
New-York, 114, 130

Canning's Life Raft, account of, 198
Carpets, Paper, how made, 245
Carriages, method of detaching from horses
instantaneously, 3

Casks, method of cleaning foul ones, 389
Cellar Steps, improved, 181

Cements, on the cohesion of, with tables, by B.
Bevan, 135

Character, on the formation of, 201
Chemical Amusements, 213
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Railroad Co.
Controversy, 148
Chicago Road, 56
Chiragon, a guide for the blind to write, 227
City Improvements, 66

Coal Trade, account of, in America, 23
Copperplate Printing, method of, described, 258
Copying, various methods of, described-by
casting in metal-casting in plaster, 359-
casting in wax-by moulding-on embossed
china-on glass seals-square glass bottles
-snuff boxes-knife and umbrella handles
-tobacco pipes-embossing on calico and
leather-by smith's work-engraving by
pressure-gold and silver moulding-orna-
mental papers, 360

G.

Geological Map of Courses in Massachusetts,
169

Glass, method of etching designs on, 169-on
blowing of, 169

Gleanings, rural and scientific, 218
Grain, raised on old and new lands, difference
of, accounted for, 102
Grapes, Scuppernong, method of rearing, 86-
on raising by eyes or buds, 185

H.
Hainsselin's Motive Power, described, 370
Harlæm Railroad Controversy, 145
Heads, of metal, brass, or steel, constructed so
as to articulate, 197

Heat, its spreading by conduction, &c. 215
Hemp Machine, account of, 341
Hickory Brooms, recommended on railways,

259

Copying by stamping coins-military ornaments Holt's Hotel, description of, 214
-buttons-French method-by punching
iron plates for borders-cards for guns-or-
naments for gilt paper-steel chains-with
elongation-wire drawing-tube drawing,
361-iron rolling, 374

Copying with altered dimensions, see letter A.
Corn, cultivation of, best method described, 185
Cranberries, best method of rearing, 23
Curves, lost on railways, 325

Curves for Arches, method of describing, 329

D.

Day-Book for Farmers, recommended, 7
Diving Apparatus, account of, 169
Dome, method of building without centering,
183

E.

Electro-Magnetic Experiment, 197
Engraving in Aquatinta, 133-in Relief, Asa
Spencer's plan, 327

Ericsson's Improved Steam Engine and Water
Mill, proposed improvements in, 291
Erie and New-York Railroad Company, 337
F.

Farmer, independence of, &c. 38
Farmers, Hints to, 71, 86, 218, 234, 281, 298,
377, 392

Fire Alarm, self-acting one, described, 197
Fire Engine, steam one, account of, 33, 264
Fire Escape, Murray's plan, 137
Fire Extinguisher, Capt. Manby's plan, 230
Flies, how to destroy black and green, 393
Florists, Hints to, 235
Fodder, hints respecting, 151
Food for Oxen and Catile, 120
Food for Plants, 55
Foot Railroads, 20, 49
Forces too great for Human Power, 343
Foreign News, 10, 16, 32, 40, 56, 72, 88, 108,
120, 172, 188, 205, 236, 252, 268, 301,315, 342,
348, 362, 380, 412
Friction Clutch Box, for adjusting intermitting
machinery, account of, 70

Fruit, method of preserving in winter, 8
66 on the cultivation of, 219

Fulton, Robert, his account of his first steam-
boat excursion, 291

Home Intelligence, 11, 24, 43, 57, 74, 90, 104,
122, 139, 158, 172, 189, 204, 220, 236, 253,
284, 300, 316, 333, 349, 365, 381, 395, 408
Homer and Steamboats, 321
Horse Shoe, improved, 180
Horse Shoe Nails, improved, 103
Horticultural Society of Albany, 151
Hosack, Dr., account of his Improved Sterco-
rary, 393

Hot Air Blast, 82

Hot Water, method of heating houses by, 39
Hotchkiss' Improved Grist Mill, account of,
234

Human Power, additions to, 310
Hydraulic Press, Russell's, account of, 3, 229

I

Internal Improvements, generally, account of,
by E. S. Coxe, 211

Iron of Borneo, account of, 134
Iron Boats, description of, 135
Iron Trade in England, account of, 259
Iron, malleable, improvement in, 372
K.

Kettle Holder, improved one, 184
Knickerbacker Magazine, notice of, 130, 155
Knowledge and Industry, society for promot-
ing, account of, 356

L.

Lathe, improvement in the, by G. Walker, 215
Leading Blocks, improvement in, 129
Levers, advantages of long ones in locomotive
engines, 134

Lime, used as manure, 103
Little Falls, description of, 244
Live Stock, method of raising, 281
Liverpool, (Eng.) description of the manufac-
tories of, &c. 227

Locomotion without Steam, 229
Locomotive Ergines, a table exhibiting the per-
formances on planes of different inclinations,
33-Mr. Baldwin's, 36
Loudon's Gardener's Magazine, extracts from,
233

M.
M'Adam on Road Making, 196

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