NEW YORK, APRIL 19, 1884
Reading edition
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVII, No. 433.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. CHEMISTRY, METALLURGY, ETC.--New Analogy between Solids, Liquids, and Gases.
Hydrogen Amalgam.
Treatment of Ores by Electrolysis.--By M. KILIANI.
II. ENGINEERING, AND MECHANICS.--Electric Railway at Vienna.--With engraving.
Instruction in Mechanical Engineering.--Technical and trade education.--A course of study sketched out.--By Prof. R.H. THURSTON.
Improved Double Boiler.--3 figures.
The Gardner Machine Gun.--With three engravings showing the single barrel, two barrel, and five barrel guns.
Climbing Tricycles.
Submarine Explorations.--Voyage of the Talisman.--The Thibaudier sounding apparatus.--With map, diagrams, and engravings.
Jamieson's Cable Grapnel.--With engraving.
A Threaded Set Collar.
III. TECHNOLOGY.--Wretched Boiler Making.
Pneumatic Malting.--With full description of the most improved methods and apparatus.--Numerous figures.
Reducing and Enlarging Plaster Casts.
Stripping the Film from Gelatine Negatives.
IV. ELECTRICITY.--Non-sparking Key.
New Instruments for Measuring Electric Currents and Electromotive Force.--By MESSRS. K.E. CROMPTON and GISBERT KAPP.--Paper read before the Society of Telegraph Engineers.--With several engravings.
When Does the Electric Shock Become Fatal?
V. ART AND ARCHÆOLOGY.--Robert Cauer's Statute of Lorelei.--With engraving.
The Pyramids of Meroe.--With engraving.
VI. ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY.--The Red Sky.--Cause of the same explained by the Department of Meteorology.
A Theory of Cometary Phenomena.
On Comets.--By FURMAN LEAMING, M.D.
VII. NATURAL HISTORY.--The Prolificness of the Oyster.
Coarse Food for Pigs.
VIII. BOTANY, HORTICULTURE, ETC.--Forms of Ivy.--With several engravings.
Propagating Roses.
A Few of the Best Inulas.--With engraving.
Fruit Growing.--By P.H. FOSTER.
IX. MEDICINE, HYGIENE, ETC.--A People without Consumption, and Some Account of Their Country, the Cumberland Tableland. --By E.M. WIGHT.
The Treatment of Habitual Constipation.
X. MISCELLANEOUS.--The French Scientific Station at Cape Horn.
XI. BIOGRAPHY.--The Late Maori Chief, Mete Kingi.--With portrait.