Produced by Jon Niehof, Don Kretz, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the DP Team
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XX., No. 514.
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I. CHEMISTRY.--Chlorides in the Rainfall of 1884. Apparatus for Evaporating Organic Liquids.--With description and 3 figures.
II. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Relative Costs of Fluid and Solid Fuels.
Science in Diminishing Casualties at Sea.--Extract of a paper read before the British Association by DON ARTURO DE MARCOARTER.
Apparatus for the Production of Water Gas. 3 figures.
III. TECHNOLOGY.--The Blue Print Process.--R.W. JONES.
Reproductions of Drawings in Blue Lines on White Ground.--By A.H. HAIG.
A Plan for a Carbonizing House.--With full description and 5 figures.
The Integraph.--With full description and engraving.
Apparatus for the Manufacture of Gaseous Beverages. 2 engravings.
The Preservation of Timber.--Report of the Committee of the American Society of Engineers.--The Boucherie process.--Experiments.--Decay of timber.
IV. PHYSICS, ELECTRICITY, LIGHT, ETC.--Apparatus for Measuring the Force of Explosives.--With engraving.
Lighting and Ventilating by Gas.--Advantages of gas over electricity, etc.--By WM. SUGG. 2 figures.
Brown's Electric Speed Regulator. 1 figure.
Magneto-electric Crossing Signal. 2 figures.
The Chromatoscope.--An aid to microscopy.
V. ART AND ARCHITECTURE.--The Barbara Uttmann Statue at Annaberg, Saxony.
Improvements in Concrete Construction.--Use of Portland cement.--System of building in concrete invented by Messrs. F. & J.P. West, London.
Albany Buildings. Southport.--An engraving.
VI. PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE, ETC.--The Sizes of Blood Corpuscles in Mammals and Birds.--A table.
The Absorption of Petroleum Ointment and Lard by the Skin.
VII. MISCELLANEOUS.--The Missing German Corvette Augusta.--With engraving.
The Tails of Comets.--The effect by a disturbance of solar waves, and not by special matter.