SA Supplements Vol 22 Issue 550supp

SA Supplements

Volume 22, Issue 550supp

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Features

British Lifeboats

Steam Lifeboats.—An Opportunity for Inventors

The Raising of a Wrecked Steamship

Compressed Air for Lifeboats

The Ship Railway

Jackson, Tenn., January 2, 1886.

J. J. Williams

Refrigerating and Ice-Making Machinery and Appliances

T. Lightfoot

The Purification of Water by Alum

Peter T. Austen

The Prevention of Naphthalene Deposits

Flame Contact.—A New Departure in Water Heating

Thomas Fletcher

Domestic Electricity

The Plumber as a Sanitarian

William Halley

An Improved Method of Cable Working

J. Ebel

Cremation of Garbage

John Zellweger

On Certain Properties Common to Fluids and Solid Metals

W. Chandler Roberts Austen

Centenary of Parmentier

Gossypin

The Coloring Principle of Cotton Seed

On the Application of Human Excreta as Manure: The Deportment of Urea toward Soils

New Harbor on West Coast of India

New Element of the Blood

Heart Beats

Distribution of Power in Woolen Mill

Departments

Patents - July 17, 1886