NEW YORK, DECEMBER 29, 1883
Reading edition
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVI, No. 417.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Machine for Making Electric Light Carbons.--2 figures
The Earliest Gas Engine
The Moving of Large Masses.--With engravings of the removal of a belfry at Cresentino in 1776, and of the winged bulls from Nineveh to Mosul in 1854
Science and Engineering.--The relation they bear to one another. By WALTER R. BROWNE
Hydraulic Plate Press.--With engraving
Fast Printing Press for Engravings.--With engraving
French Cannon
Apparatus for Heating by Gas.--5 figures
Improved Gas Burner for Singeing Machines.--1 figure
II. TECHNOLOGY.--China Grass, or Rhea.--Different processes and apparatus used in preparing the fiber for commerce
III. ARCHITECTURE.--Woodlands, Stoke Pogis, Bucks.--With engraving.
IV. ELECTRICITY, LIGHT, ETC.--Volta Electric Induction as Demonstrated by Experiment.--Paper read by WILLOUGHBY SMITH before the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians.--Numerous figures
On Telpherage.--The Transmission of vehicles by electricity to a distance.--By Prof. FLEEMING JENKIN
New Electric Battery Lights
The Siemens Electric Railway at Zankeroda Mines.--3 figures
Silas' Chronophore.--3 figures
V. NATURAL HISTORY.--A New Enemy of the Bee
Crystallization of Honey
An Extensive Sheep Range
VI. HORTICULTURE, ETC.--The Zelkowas.--With full description of the tree, manner of identification, etc., and several engravings showing the tree as a whole, and the leaves, fruit, and flowers in detail
VII. MEDICINE, HYGIENE, ETC.-The Disinfection of the Atmosphere. --Extract from a lecture by Dr. R.J. LEE, delivered at the Parkes Museum of Hygiene. London
A New Method of Staining Bacillus Tuberculosis
Cure for Hemorrhoids