SA Supplements

March 1878

Volume 5, Issue 114supp

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Features

Improved Box Engine

Ferdinand De Lesseps

Institution of Civil Engineers, London

Bourne's Patent Governor

Water in Steam

Measurement of Water Mechanically Suspended in Steam

Palamede Guzzi

A New Iron Steamship

Compound Hydraulic Cotton Press

Improved Thrashing and Finishing Machine

Mining in Arizona and in Mexico

Miscellaneous Items

Coal-Cutting Machinery

Lighting of Railway Carriages

Improved Velocipedes or Manumotive Carriages

Proposed Lodge, Etc., Recreation Ground, Sydenham

The Lowe Gas Process at Baltimore—the Consumers' Mutual Gaslight Co

Machines and Tools for Working Metal, Wood, and Stone, at the Philadelphia Exhibition

John Anderson

Economy in Indigo

Valuation of Cements

W. Michaelis

The Adulteration of Ground Madder and its Preparations

Method of Recovering Indigo, Cochineal, Madder, and Other Coloring Matters from Wool or Woolen Fabrics

Sanceau, Meleville

Progress of Telegraph Engineering

C. W. Siemens

Use of Glycerine

M. H. Herberger

Lontin's Dynamo-Electric Machines

Field Telegraphy

Wheatstone's Violoncello

Physical Society, London

Destruction of Submarine Cables

A Constant Daniell Cell

The Modern Telescope

J. Norman Lockyer

Development of Carbon Prints

M. Lamy

Chemicals Used in the Various Picture- Making Processes: Their Manufacture and Their Properties

John L. Gihon

Curious Electrical Conditions of Collodion

Removing Tin from Tin Scraps

Test for Elaterin

David Lindo

Iridium and Osmium

Chemical Society, London

Cystinuria

A. Niemann

The Density of Liquid Oxygen

Rabies in Dogs

Organic Matter in Potable Water

G. Bischof

Insufficient Supply of Lime

J. Forster

Remarkable Effects of Plaster and Clover

Ben. R. Foster, of St. Louis

Scientific American Chess Record

Solutions to Problems

Herr Meyer