NEW YORK, DECEMBER 16, 1882
Reading edition
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 363.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--The New York Canals.-- Their history, dimensions, and commercial influence
Cottrau's Locomotive for Ascending Steep Grades.--1 figure
Bachmann's Steam Drier--3 figures
H. S. Parmelee's Patent Automatic sprinkler.--2 figures
Instrument for Drawing Converging Straight Lines.--10 figures
Feed Water Heater and Purifier. By GEO. S. STRONG.--2 figures
Paper Making "Down East."
Goulier's Tube Gauge.--1 figure.-Plan and longitudinal and transverse sections
Soldering Without an Iron
Working Copper Ores at Spenceville
II. TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY-New Method of Detecting Dyes on Yarns and Tissues. By JULES JOFFRE.--Reagents.--Red colors.--Violet colors
Chevalet's Condenso-purifier for Gas.--2 figures.--Elevation and plan
Artificial Ivory
Creosote Impurities. By Prof P. W. BEDFORD
III. ELECTRICITY. ETC.--Sir William Thomson's Pile--2 figures
Siemens' Telemeter.--1 figure.--Siemens electric telemeter
Physics Without Apparatus.--Experiment in static electricity.-- 1 figure
The Cascade Battery. By F. HIGGINS.--1 figure
Perfectly Lovely Philosophy
IV. ASTRONOMY, ETC.--The Comet as seen from the Pyramids near Cairo, Egypt.--1 figure
Sunlight and skylight at High Altitudes.--Influence of the atmosphere upon the solar spectrum.--Observations of Capt. Abney and Professor Langley.--2 figures
How to Establish a True Meridian
V. MINERALOGY.--The Mineralogical Localities in and Around New York City, and the Minerals Occurring Therein. By NELSON H. DAKTON. Part III.--Hoboken minerals.--Magnesite.--Dolomite. --Brucite.--Aragonite.--Serpentine.--Chromic iron--Datholite. --Pectolite.--Feldspar.--Copper mines, Arlington, N.J.-Green malachite.--Red oxide of copper.--Copper glance.--Erubescite
VI. ENTOMOLOGY.--The Buckeye Leaf Stem Borer
Defoliation of Oak Trees by Dryocampa senatoria in Perry County, Pa.
Efficacy of Chalcid Egg Parasites
On the Biology of Gonatopis Pilosus, Thoms
Species of Otiorhynchadae Injurious to Cultivated Plants
VII. ART, ARCHITECTURE, ETC.--Monteverde's Statue of Architecture. --Full page illustration, Lit Architectura. By JULI MONTEVERDE
Design for a Gardener's Cottage.--1 figure
VIII. HYGIENE AND MEDICINE.--Remedy for Sick Headache
IX. ORNITHOLOGY.--Sparrows in the United States.--Effects of acclimation, etc.
X. MISCELLANEOUS.--James Prescott Joule, with Portrait.--A sketch of the life and investigations of the discoverer of the mechanical equivalent of heat. By J. T. BOTTOMLEY
The Proposed Dutch International Colonial and General Export Exhibition.--1 figure.--Plan of the Amsterdam Exhibition