NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 1881
Reading edition
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XII, No. 299.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--On the Progress and development of the Marine Engine.--Marine engines.--The marine boiler.--Steel boilers.--Corrosion of boilers.--How the marine engine may be improved.--Consumption of fuel.--Evaporative efficiency of marine locomotive boilers.--Screw propellers
Steam Ferry Boats of the Port of Marseilles.--2 figures.-- Transverse and longitudinal sections
Opening of a New English Dock. 1 figure
Improved Grain Elevator. 1 figure
Improved Dredger. 1 figure.--Single bucket dipper dredger
Railway Alarm Whistle
Furnace for the Manufacture of Sulphide of Carbon. 1 figure
Brouardel's Dry Inscribing Manometer. 1 figure.--Gas indication of manometer
Centrifugal Apparatus for Casting Metals. 4 figures.--Centrifugal metal moulding apparatus
Apparatus for the Manufacture of Wood Pulp. 2 figures.--Dresel's wood pulp apparatus
Recent Progress of Industrial Science.--Presidential address, Convention of Mechanical Engineers
The Hoboken Drainage Problem
II. TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY--On some Recent Improvements in Lead Processes. By NORMAN C. COOKSON
Apparatus Used in Berlin for the Preparation of Gelatine Plates.-- I. Mixing apparatus.--II. Digestive apparatus.--III. Triturating apparatus--IV. Washing apparatus--3 figures
How To Make Emulsions In Hot Weather. By A. L. HENDERSON
The Distillation and Rectification of Alcohols by the Rational Use of Low Temperatures. By RAOUL PICTET.--1 figure.--Pictet's apparatus for the rectification of alcohol by cold
The Removal of Noxious Vapors from Roasting Furnace Gases
New Gas Exhauster. 1 figure
Advance in the Price of Glycerine
Analysis of Oils or Mixtures of Oils Used for Lubricating Purposes
Nitrate of Amyl
III. ELECTRICITY, ETC.--The Electric Light in Earnock Colliery
Lightning and Telephone Wires
Conditions of Flames Under the Influence of Electricity
The Electric Stop-Motion in the Cotton Mill
Electrolytic Determinations and Separations. By ALEX, and M. A. VON REIS.--Determination of cobalt.--Nickel--Iron.--Zinc.-- Manganese.--Bismuth.--Lead.--Copper.--Cadmium.--Tin.--Antimony.-- Arsenic.--Separation of iron from manganese.--Iron from Aluminum
IV. MEDICINE, SURGERY, ETC.--Treatment of Acute Rheumatism. By ALFRED M. STILLE, M.D.
Method in Madness
Simple Methods to Staunch Accidental Hemorrhage. By EDWARD BORCK, M.D.--Bleeding from upper arm.--From arteries in the upper third of the arm.--From the thigh.--From the foot
Hot Water Compresses in Tetanus and Trismus
V. AGRICULTURE, ETC.--The Cultivation of Pyrethrum and Manufacture of Powder
Trials of String Sheaf Binders at Derby, England
The Culture of Strawberries.--Garden culture.--Field culture
Some Hardy Flowers for Midsummer
The Time Consuming Match
VI. ARCHITECTURE, ART, ETC.--Suggestions in Decorative Art. 1 figure.--Silver ewer by Odiot, Paris
Artists' Homes. No. l4.--Bent's Brook, Holmwood, Surrey, Eng.-- 6 figures.--Perspective, elevations, and plans
VII. OBITUARY.--Achille Delesse, eminent as geologist and mineralogist