Scientific American, Architects and Builder's Edition. No. 26

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Various

Title

Scientific American Architects and Builders Edition, No. 26, Dec., 1887

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Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Brian Wilcox and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

NA: Fine Arts: Architecture

Subject

Building -- Periodicals

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50927

Release Date

January 14, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Scientific American Architects and Builders edition. No. 26
2. 2.Economic ✠ Gas ✠ Engines.
3. 3.Scientific American ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS EDITION — THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL AT STRATFORD‐UPON‐AVON. — Optical Refinements in Architecture. — Testing Pile‐Protecting Compounds. — A Tower on the Mount of Olives.
4. 4.Scientific American. — CONCERNING AGENTS. — CONTENTS Of the December number of the Architects and Builders Edition of Scientific American . — TO OUR READERS AND PATRONS. — A CORRECTION. — A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE. — Specifications. mason work. — CARPENTRY. — A LARGE CONTRACT FOR ROOFING PLATE. — A DWELLING OF MODERATE COST. — Specification. general conditions. — CARPENTER. — PAINTING. — MASON. — PLASTERER. — PLUMBER. — A FRENCH COTTAGE. — Our Forestry Problem. — A RESIDENCE FOR $8,000. — Bamboo Tree. — FIREPROOF STRUCTURES. — Construction of Chimney Flues. — Roadside Plantations of Trees in Belgium. — An Egyptian Temple. — The White Ash. — Sawdust. — DWELLINGS AT GLENRIDGE. — Fire Bricks. — Improvements in Making Portland Cement. — Typhoid Fever Carried by Well Water. — An Unsafe Church. — Cedar Pavements. — Hemlock. — Collapse of Walls of Burning Buildings. — A $2,500 CALIFORNIA HOUSE. — SPECIFICATIONS. — COST. — The Architectural Era. — Blue Marking Ink for Boxes, Bales, etc. — CHATEAU AT CASTELNAUDARY. — Nails. — Rabbit Remedy. — How to Build an Ice House. — Look to Your Drain Pipes and Wells. — Arch Construction. — NEW FORM OF CHIMES FOR CHURCHES. — Tube Chimes. — MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE’S HOME. — Painting. — Removal of Chimneys. — HOMES OF FACTORY OPERATIVES. — Gangways v. Staircases. — ROBURITE—A NEW EXPLOSIVE. — Iron Beams In Place of Wood. — BATHING ESTABLISHMENT AND CASINO IN VITTEL (VOSGES). BUILT BY CHARLES GARNIER, ARCHITECT, OF PARIS. — The Back Yard. — Thomas Ustick Walter. — Pine Woods. — SKETCH FOR A COTTAGE. — How We Have Grown. — A Good Suggestion. — A $4,200 DWELLING. — THE JOHN CROUSE MEMORIAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN. — How a Marble Statue is Made. — A STABLE COSTING $5,500. — A Great Building. — A COTTAGE FOR $4,200. — A RESIDENCE FOR $5,000. — Proportions of Rooms. — Plants for Room Decoration. — The Charter Gas and Gasoline Engine. — AN IMPROVED DOUBLE SURFACE PLANER. — Foundations in Wet Ground. — HOW TO MAKE A CHEERFUL FIRESIDE. — The Sounding Board in St. Paul’s Cathedral. — THE POPULAR “FORTUNE” HOT AIR FURNACE. — Not Defective Plumbing. — AN IMPROVED HAND AND FOOT POWER BAND SAW. — Superior Copper Weather Vanes — GEO. W. MARBLE, Sole Manufacturer of THE ACME WRENCH. — DEXTER BROTHERS’ ENGLISH SHINGLE STAINS — ARCHITECTS — COMPETITION. — ALL OUR FURNACES ARE — Architects, ✠ Builders, ✠ and House ✠ Owners — JAMES F. WOOD & CO. — L. MANASSE, — The GREAT CHURCH LIGHT — THE “IDEAL” PATENT TILE‐LINED BATH‐TUB.
5. 5.Notes and Queries. — HINTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
6. 6.Building Plans and Specifications.
7. 7.Business and Personal.
8. 8.PROSPECTUS OF THE Scientific American FOR 1888. — THE Scientific American Supplement.
9. 9.INVALUABLE BOOKS FOR THE MECHANIC, ENGINEER, AND CHEMIST. REVISED TO DATE.
10. 10.Notes and Queries. ( Continued from page vi. )
11. 11.Classified Index of Advertisements Published in the Present Number of the Scientific American, Architects and Builders Edition.
12. 12.INDEX. VOLUME IV.—JULY‐DECEMBER, 1887. — COLORED PLATES. — MISCELLANY.

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