Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 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 Camellias, Experiments in Memory, The Chemical Action of Light, and longer articles on the Gas Engine, and Optical Telegraphy. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters (29)
1Permeability of Sand Rock by Frederick H. Newell, M.E.
2The Grotto of Gargas
3Deep Shafts and Deep Mining
4Remarkable Wells and Caverns / Note on Cholera
5The Cabbage Butterfly and The Peacock Butterfly
6The Bhotan Cypress
7The Pitcher Plant / What Is a Plant?
8Camellias
9ArisÆma Fimbriatum
10Striking a Light
11Experiments in Memory
12Sinking of the Quievrechain Working Shaft
13On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 1
14On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 2
15On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 3
16M. Meizel's Reciprocating Exhauster
17Automatic Siphon for Irrigation / Assay of Earthenware Glaze
18On the Electrical Furnace and the Reduction of the Oxides of Boron, Silicon, Aluminum, and Other Metals by Carbon
19The Cowles Electric Smelting Process
20Optical Telegraphy - Cryptography - Preservation of Telegrams
21Optical Telegraphy - Use of the Projector in Optical Telegraphy / Capt. Gaumet's Optical Telegraph
22Optical Telegraphy - Optical Signaling between Bodies of Troops / Optical Telegraphy by Luminous Balloons / Optical Telegraphy in the Marine
23Optical Telegraphy - A New Style of Submarine Telegraph
24A New Circuit Cutter
25New Micro-Telephonic Apparatus
26Messrs. Kapp and Crompton's Measuring Instruments
27The Chemical Action of Light
28Eutexia, by Thomas Turner, Assoc. R.S.M., F.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry, Mason College
29Chinoline / Method for Rapid Estimation of Urea
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