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SA Supplements Vol 24 Issue 608supp

SA Supplements

Volume 24, Issue 608supp

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Features

A Reaction Propeller

The “Brennan” Torpedo

Carrying Water Mains across a River

Improved Collapsible Boat

Track Laying by Steam

How to make a Leyden Jar

The Use of the Magnetic Needle in Exploring for Iron Ore

Bennett H. Brough

On a New Method of Measuring Magnetic Susceptibility and Magnetic Permeability

Thomas T. P. Bruce Warren

Photography by Vital Phosphorescence

Jno. Vansant

Caverns near Manitou, Colorado

H. C. Hovey

Freezing Mixtures

Geology and Geography

What American Zoologists have Done for Evolution

Edward S. Morse

A New Local Anæsthetic

Milton Josiah Roberts, M.D.

J. J. Sullivan

Harvard's New Observatory

From La Nature

The Principle of Inertia

A Mathematical Game

The Taking of the Bastille

Soap Bubbles

The Annatto Bush

Physics without Apparatus

The Giant Arbor-Vitæ

(Thuja Gigantea)

A Delicate Test for Bismuth

Building Plans and Specifications

Departments

Patents - August 27, 1887