SA Supplements Vol 5 Issue 120supp

SA Supplements

Volume 5, Issue 120supp

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Features

Becquerel, Regnault, and Secchi

Clamond's Improved Electric Thermo-Pile

Archæological Discovery in Rome

Experiments with the Telephone

A. Domoget

Notes on the Telephone

Its History and the Theory of its Construction and Operation

R. M. Ferguson

A Visit to the Inventor of the Phonograph

Cincinnati Inclined Planes.—The Highland House

The Working of Coal

Compressed Air Receptacles

Improved Fire-Engine Pump

Mining in Boulder County, Colorado

F. L. Vinton

Iron and Coal in British Columbia

Recent Torpedo Experiments in England

Damascened Ornaments from a Shield, Hispano-Moresco Work. —Suggestions for Decorative Art

Prize for Blowpipe Apparatus

The Geological Antiquity of Flowers and Insects

J. E. Taylor

Olive Culture

What is a Diatom?

Refraction of Gases and Vapors

M. Mascart

Ginger

Œnoline, and its Preparation

Chemical Reactions of the Electric Effluve and upon Persulphuric Acid

M. Berthelot

Platinum Metals

Phosphorescence and Fluorescence

M. Fave

Repulsion Resulting from Radiation

[Presented to the French Academy by M. Th. du Moncel]

W. Crookes

On some Thallium Pigments

Thomas W. Salter

New Products Obtained from Coal-Gas: Ponsœlion, a New Pigment, and Cyanon, a New Gunpowder

Lewis Thompson

The Transit of Mercury on May 6th

Scientific American Chess Record

Dubuque Problem Tournament No. 1

Anderssen vs. Paulsen

Solutions to Problems

Joachim Lowenthal