NEW YORK, JANUARY 3, 1885
Reading edition
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIX, No. 470.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. METALLURGY, CHEMISTRY, ETC.—The Elasticity of Metals.
The Liquefaction of the Elementary Gases.—By JULES JAMIN.
Examination of Fats.
Notes on Nitrification.—By R. WARINGTON.—Paper read before the British Association at Montreal.
II. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.—Flow of Water through Hose Pipes.
Iron Pile Planks in the Construction of Foundations under Water.—3 engravings.
Sound Signals.—Extracts from a paper by A.B. JOHNSON.—Treating of gongs, guns, rockets, bells, whistling buoys, bell buoys, locomotive whistles, trumpets, the siren, and the use of natural orifices.—2 engravings.
Trevithick's High Pressure Engine at Crewe.—2 engravings.
Planetary Wheel Trains.—By Prof. C.W. MACCORD.—With a page and a half of illustrations.
Bridge over the River Indus, at Attock. Punjaub, Northern State Railway, India.—Full page illustrations.
The Harrington Rotary Engine.—3 figures.
III. TECHNOLOGY.—Testing Car Varnishes.—By D.D. ROBERTSON.
Aniline Dyes in Dress Materials.—By Prof. CHAS. O'NEILL.
IV. DECORATIVE ART.—A. Chippendale Sideboard.—With engraving.
V. PHYSICS, MAGNETISM, ETC.—The Fallacy of the Present Theory of Sound.—Abstract of a lecture by Dr. H.A. MOTT.
The Fixation of Magnetic Phantoms.—With engraving.
VI. NATURAL HISTORY.—Researches on the Origin and Life Histories of the Least and Lowest Living Things—-By Rev. W.H. DALLINGER.
VII. MEDICINE, ETC.—Case of Resuscitation and Recovery after Apparent Death by Hanging.—by Dr. E.W. WHITE.
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS.—The Inventors' Institute.—Address of the Chairman at the opening of the twenty-second session of the Institute, October 2.
The New Central School at Paris.—3 engravings.