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Scientific American Supplement, September 26, 1885

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Author
Various
Title
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
Credits
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
T: Technology
Subject
Science -- Periodicals
Category
Text
eBook-No.
16792
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16792
Release Date
October 3, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 508
  2. 2.NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 26, 1885 — Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XX.*, No. 508. — Scientific American established 1845 — Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. — Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.
  3. 3.PERMEABILITY OF SAND ROCK. — By FREDERICK H. NEWELL, M.E.
  4. 4.THE GROTTO OF GARGAS.
  5. 5.DEEP SHAFTS AND DEEP MINING.
  6. 6.REMARKABLE WELLS AND CAVERNS.
  7. 7.THE CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. — THE PEACOCK BUTTERFLY.
  8. 8.THE BHOTAN CYPRESS. — (CUPRESSUS TORULOSA.)
  9. 9.THE PITCHER PLANT.
  10. 10.WHAT IS A PLANT?
  11. 11.CAMELLIAS.
  12. 12.ARISÆMA FIMBRIATUM. — Mast.; sp. nov.
  13. 13.STRIKING A LIGHT.
  14. 14.EXPERIMENTS IN MEMORY.
  15. 15.SINKING OF THE QUIEVRECHAIN WORKING SHAFT.
  16. 16.ON THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF THE GAS-ENGINE. 1 — By Denny Lane , of Cork.
  17. 17.M. MEIZEL'S RECIPROCATING EXHAUSTER.
  18. 18.AUTOMATIC SIPHON FOR IRRIGATION.
  19. 19.ASSAY OF EARTHENWARE GLAZE.
  20. 20.ON THE ELECTRICAL FURNACE AND THE REDUCTION OF THE OXIDES OF BORON, SILICON, ALUMINUM, AND OTHER METALS BY CARBON. 1 — By Eugene H. Cowles, Alfred H. Cowles, and Charles F. Mabery.
  21. 21.THE COWLES ELECTRIC SMELTING PROCESS.
  22. 22.OPTICAL TELEGRAPHY. 1 — CRYPTOGRAPHY.—PRESERVATION OF TELEGRAMS. — OPTICAL TELEGRAPHY BY MEANS OF PROJECTORS. — USE OF THE PROJECTOR IN OPTICAL TELEGRAPHY. — CAPT. GAUMET'S OPTICAL TELEGRAPH. — OPTICAL SIGNALING BETWEEN BODIES OF TROOPS. — OPTICAL TELEGRAPHY BY LUMINOUS BALLOONS. — OPTICAL TELEGRAPHY IN THE MARINE.
  23. 23.A NEW STYLE OF SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.
  24. 24.A NEW CIRCUIT CUTTER.
  25. 25.NEW MICRO-TELEPHONIC APPARATUS.
  26. 26.MESSRS. KAPP AND CROMPTON'S MEASURING INSTRUMENTS.
  27. 27.THE CHEMICAL ACTION OF LIGHT.
  28. 28.EUTEXIA. 1 — By Thomas Turner , Assoc. R.S.M., F.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry, Mason College. — I. CRYOHYDRATES. — II. EUTECTIC SALT ALLOYS. 4 — III. EUTECTIC METALLIC ALLOYS.
  29. 29.CHINOLINE.
  30. 30.METHOD FOR RAPID ESTIMATION OF UREA. — THE
  31. 31.Scientific American Supplement. — PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
  32. 32.PATENTS.

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