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14 1849 Telegraph line New York to Buffalo.
Sci Am, Vol. 4, No. 30,  p.235
pdf   telegraph, construction

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1848 Tunnel through Green Mountains.
Sci Am
,  Vol. 4,  No. 30,  p.233
pdf   railroad, Boston, Greenfield, Mass., Troy, N.Y.,  Hoosick Mountain [sic]
16 1853  A Railroad Well Watched.
Sci Am, Vol. 8,  No. 31, p.246
pdf   Hudson River RR
17 1847  Telegraph poles cut down by RR.
Sci Am
, Vol. 2, No. 30, p.239
pdf   Western Railroad Company, telegraph poles, brakemen, trains
20 1850  English Horses and the RR.
Sci Am, Vol. 5, No. 31, p.241
pdf   census, England, horses, railroad, animals, oxen, transportation, grain, hay, grass
21 1849 Ice and Steam.
Sci Am Volume 4 Issue 31, p.246
pdf   ice houses, ice trade, Fresh Pond, Mass. 
22 1848 The Propellor Sarah Sands.
Sci Am Volume 3 Issue 31, p.242
pdf blog steam, ships, propellers, screws, transatlantic, packet ship
29 1849 Screw and Paddle.
Sci Am Volume 3 Issue 32, p.249    
pdf   blog steam, ships, propellers, screws, HMS Rattler, HMS Alecto, Britain, paddle steamer

May

       
3 1862 Anthracite coal embargo.
Sci Am Vol. 6  Issue 18, p.281

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  steam, ships, coal, smugglers, blockade, Civil War, smoke, bituminous coal
9 1857 Iron Ship with Iron Rigging.
Sci Am Vol.12 Issue 35, p. 276.

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ships, steamers, Scotland, Santiago

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