SA Supplements Vol 7 Issue 181supp

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Volume 7, Issue 181supp

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Features

The Berthon Folding Canoe

On the Form of the Stern and the Arrangement of the Propellers in Screw Ships in order to obtain the Best Effect in Propulsion

Robert Griffiths

Useful Notes for Masters and Officers of Screw Steamers

Spiral Slide Rule

Iron and Steel

Tyre-Grinding Lathe

Ornamenting Textile Fabrics

William W. Carpenter

On Silk Dyeing

Marius Moyret

Miners' Lingo

Definitions of the Terms Used by the Miners

The Wax of Ficus Gummiflua

F. Kessel

Recent Science

New Products from Beets

Prof. Crookes' Remarkable Discoveries concerning Molecules

Soft Coal

Rational Utilization of the Water from fulling Mills

A. Gawalovski

Reductive Action of Milk Sugar upon Alkaline Solution of Copper

H. Rodewald, B. Tollens

Extinguishing Fires in Tar Distilleries, Etc.

Watson Smith

Physical Society, London, April 26, 1879

W. G. Adams

Nature of Poison of Yellow Fever, and its Prevention

H. D. Schmidt

Edison's Electric Candles

Thermic and Galvanometric Laws of the Electric Spark Produced in Gases

E. Villari

The Curious Astronomical Phenomenon

The Electric Light in Large Cities

Quince Culture

Leverrier

Compressed Flour

The New Church of the Oratory

Modeling in Clay

Edward A. Spring

La Tuffolina

Wings and Arms

The Tree Creeper

Certhia Familiaris