NEW YORK, JULY 11, 1885
Reading edition
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XX, No. 497.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY.--Making Sea Water Potable. --By THOS. KAY
The Acids of Wool Oil
The New Absorbent for Oxygen
Depositing Nickel upon Zinc.--By H.B. SLATER
II. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Foundations in Quicksand, Lift Bridge over the Ourcq Canal.--3 figures
St. Petersburg a Seaport.--A canal cut from Cronstadt to St. Petersburg.--Opening of same by the Emperor and Empress.--With full page engraving
The New French Dispatch Boat Milan.--With engraving
The Launching and Docking of Ships Sidewise.--4 figures
Improved High Speed Engine.--12 figures
The National Transit Co.'s Pipe Lines for the Transportation of Oil to the Seaboard.--With map and diagram
The Fuel of the Future.--History of natural gas.--Relation to petroleum.--Duration of gas, etc.--With table of analyses Closing Leakages for Packing.--Use of asbestos in stuffing boxes
III. TECHNOLOGY.--Luminous Paint.--Processes of manufacture Boxwood and its Substitutes.--Preparation of same for market, etc.--A paper written by J.A. JACKSON for the International Forestry Exhibition
IV. ARCHÆOLOGY.--An Assyrian Bass-Relief 2,700 years old
V. NATURAL HISTORY.-The Flight of the Buzzard.--By R.A. PROCTOR
VI. BOTANY, ETC.--Convallaria.--A stemless perennial.--By OTTO A. WALL, M.D.--Several figures
VII. MEDICINE, HYGIENE, ETC.--Gaiffe's New Medical Galvanometer.--1 figure
The Suspension of Life in Plants and Animals
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS.--Composite Portraits.--6 illustrations Hand-Craft and Rede-Craft.--A plea for the first named.--By D.G. GILMAN