Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
by Various
About this book
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1845. It has been a mainstay of popular science with in-depth articles across a broad spectrum of scientific fields. In this supplement are short articles ranging through such topics as Torpedo Ships, The Gas Engine, Capstan Navigation on the Volga, Astronomical Photography, and Sanitary Cooking. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters (20)
1Blaauw Krantz Viaduct in Cape Colony
2Torpedo Ships / A Plumbing Test
3The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 1
4The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 2
5Rapid Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway by E.T. Abbott
6The Osgood Mammoth Excavator / The Osgood Excavator
7Capstan Navigation on the Volga
8Steamboat Equipment of War Vessels
9Improved Steam Trap
10Photometrical Standards / Bleaching or Dyeing-Yarns and Goods in Vacuo
11On the Moulding of Porcelain by Charles Lauth
12Photo-Tricycle Apparatus / A Photo Printing Light / A New Actinometer
13Astronomical Photography
14Electricity as a Preventive of Scale in Boilers / Alphabet Designed by Godfrey Sykes
15Brief Sanitary Matters in Connection with Isolated Country Houses by E.W. Bowditch, C.E.
16Sanitary Cooking by Virginia L. Oppenheimer, M.D., Seymour, Ind. / Time Required to Digest Different Foods
17The Organization and Plan of The United States Geological Survey by J.W. Powell, Part 1
18The Organization and Plan of The United States Geological Survey by J.W. Powell. Part 2
19The Sunflowers by Charles Wolley-Dod / A Quick Filter
20Lye's Fuchsias
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