SA Supplements Vol 22 Issue 563supp

SA Supplements

Volume 22, Issue 563supp

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Features

The Hubner Carding Engine, and the Modifications that have been Introduced into It

Radii of Curvature Geometrically Determined

C. W. MacCord

The Lafitte Process of Welding Metals

William Anderson

Resonating Gongs

Grindstones

John Hardisty

Improvements in the Manufacture of Gas

On the Progress and Development of Marine Engineering

William Parker

The Stampede Pass Tunnel on the Northern Pacific

Wire Stitching Machine

The Fastest Seaboat in Existence

The “Trompe,” or Hydraulic Blower

Economical Quay Walls

Another Electric Launch

Absolute Electrometer for Measuring very High Potentials

E. Bichat, R. Blondlot

The Philosophy of Soaring Birds

De Volson Wood

Capillary Attraction

William Thomson

Colors of Metals and Alloys

Soap Bubbles

Liquid Carbonic Acid

Sulphuric Acid in Refined Petroleum and Distillate

A Method of Separating the Two Isomeric Toluidine-Sulphonic Acids

E. A. Schneider

Alkaline Chromates

Nitrates and Nitrites in Waters and Artificial Solutions

Why some People Grow Fat

Carbohydrate and Fatty Foods

N. A. Randolph

Coral Fishing

Earthquake Recorders for use in Observatories

Comets and Meteors

French Pointers

Barefoot Horses

Departments

Patents - October 16, 1886