Features
Capt. Swinburn's Portable Anchors
Rastrick's Tube-Scraper
Rowan's Safety Disc for Boilers
200 H. P. Horizontal Engine
Improved Sluice Valves
American Locomotives in Australia
Road and Agricultural Locomotive
Works of the Bethlehem Iron Company
Thermal Conductivities of Rocks
Economic Science
The British Association Geography
Report on Underground Temperature
Railway Brakes
Life-History of Simplest Organisms
The Movements of Water in Plants
The Pearly Nautilus
Tidal Investigations.—The Admiralty Tables
The Color of Animals
Turning of Screw Steamers
Chemical Constitution of the Solar System
Action of Oils On Copper
Excluding Germs from Operating Rooms
Removal of Eddystone Lighthouse
Electric Signal for Divers
Luminous Meteors
Electrical Smoke Figures
New Double Current Telegraph Key
The Resistance of Ships
Theiler's Relay
Zirconia for the Oxy-Hydrogen Light
Hardened Glass for Laboratory Purposes
A New Mordant
Washing Out Flasks by Inversion
Silk Production
Detection of Organic Compounds in Vegetable Tissues
New Photo-Printing Process—The Despaquis Method
Removing Varnish
Polygonoscope
Instantaneous Photography
Measurement of Height of Clouds
Plate-in-the-Bath Pictures
New Microscopic Attachment
A Simple Device for the Illumination of Balsam-mounted Objects for Examination with certain Immersion Objectives whose “ Balsam Angle” is 90° or upwards
An Ancient Beehive
On the Fluid Extract of Jaborandi
The Ramie Fiber
Death Bed Studies
American Workmen from a European Point of View
The Poison of Small-Pox
The Filling of Wafer Capsules
Insects in Flour
Researches on the Consumption of Oxygen and the Excretion of Carbonic Acid in Man
Fresh Meat Transportation.
Eclipses of the Moon
Photography of the Sun's Rotation
The Moons of Mars
Robert H. Seymour
Historical Chess Anecdote
London Chess Tournament of 1851
Impromptu Sentiment
Delivered at the opening festival of toke New York Chess Club, October, 1856