SA Supplements Vol 68 Issue 1769supp

SA Supplements

Volume 68, Issue 1769supp

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Features

An Interesting Aerial Cableway and Ore-Handling Plant in New Caledonia

Heating the Farm House

Methods of Obtaining Winter Comforts

Gold Mirrors for Searchlights

A Box with Secret Drawer and Recesses

Inventive Novelties

A Marine Steam Turbine Reducing Gear

Berjonneau System of Telephotography

A new French System

“Bakelite” a New Composition.—II

Its Synthesis Constitution and Uses

L.H. Baekeland

The Machines that make Cordage

How Various Fibers are Mechanically Formed Into Rope

The Development of the Gas Engine

A Critique of Recent Designs

Copper-Clad Steel

A Metallurgical Novelty

Wirt Tassin

Plans for Rebuilding the Quebec Bridge

Mechanical Aids to Railroad Building

Modern Railroad Bed Construction and Track Grading By Machinery

Frank C. Perkins

Over Switzerland in a Balloon

How it Feels to Look Down on the Alps

Victor De Beauclair

Darwin and Biology

The World of Life as Visualized and Interpreted By Darwinism

Alfred Russel Wallace

The Hand and its Cunning

Return of Halley's Comet

An Ephemeris for This Year

Trade Notes and Formulæ

Engineering Notes

Electrical Notes