SA Supplements Vol 55 Issue 1424supp

SA Supplements

Volume 55, Issue 1424supp

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Features

The Automatons of Jaquet-Droz, Father and Son

Motors in Agriculture

By the London Correspondent of the Scientific American

A Proposed System of Electrically Towing Canal Boats

Contemporary Electrical Science

Refining Gold by Electrolysis

Electric Generator for Lighting Residence

Notes on the Contact Process of Making Sulphuric Acid

The Orient Pacific Liner “Orontes”

How to make Soap Powder

History of Finger Rings

Cyril Davenport

Is the Effect of Radio-Active Substances an Absorption of Gravitational Energy?

On Polonium

F. Giesel

Latest and Best Value of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat

Carl Hering

The Evolution of the Pianoforte

Randolph I. Geare

Man's Place in the Universe

E. Walter Maunder

The Clay-Working Industries of Greece

Kites as Meteorological Instruments

The Meteor of the Soudan

Results of a Naval Inquiry as to which is the Most Powerful Armorclad Afloat

The Berber Tribes of North Africa

Libbey's Travels in Ancient Syria

The “All Stations Express”

Trade Notes and Recipes

Trade Suggestions from United States Consuls

Selected Formulæ

Patents!