SA Supplements Vol 5 Issue 124supp

SA Supplements

Volume 5, Issue 124supp

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Features

The Canons of the Colorado

[Compiled from the Report of Prof. J. W. Powell, Geologist, in charge of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories]

The Hot Springs, Bath County, Virginia

Torpedo Guard

Improved Breech-Loading Mechanism

Eruption of Mount Hecla

The Shell Trials at Shoeburyness

The Coal Question

An Iron Warehouse

A New Rocky Mountain Gold Mine

Wm. F. Wheeler

Process of Sinking Oil Wells

Manufacture of Bessemer Steel and Steel Rails

C. B. Holland

The Underground Railway in Paris

The Huelva Pier of the Rio Tinto Railway

Increase of Mail Service in the South

New Subway in London

“Gaspillage Et Insouciance”

Musical Sand

An Artesian Well 3,120 Feet Deep

The Phonograph and its Future

Thomas A. Edison

The Hair Hygrometer

Patience in Dry Plate Photography

Power for Electric Illumination

The Radiometer and the Spheroidal State

Gelatine Negatives

H. J. Palmer

Improvements in Aniline Blacks

Antony Guyard

How Granite is Polished

Cleaning Old Engravings

Processes for the Preparation of Violet Ultramarine

Improvements in Aniline Colors

The Microscope in Chemistry

H. C. Sorby

Bismuth-A Comparison of the Methods for its Estimation

B. Stillman

Manufacture of Anthraquinone

Sulphur Mines

On the Denaturation of Alcohol

Sprouting of Silver and its Cause

Smelting Works

Theodore Fluegger

The Nature, Origin, and Progress of Disease in the Human Body

J. B. Graves

Colors from Iron Turnings and Filings

C. Steinan, R. Steinan

The Ear

Anna Morandi Manzolini, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Bologna

Mademe Villari

Facts about Sleep

Antipathies

Cost and Nutritive Value of Foods

J. A. Graver, of Delaware Water Gap

Solutions to Problems

Petroff's Defense

Oxford and Cambridge Chess Match

Scientific American Chess Record