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Stern-Wheel Light-Draught Steamer

The Progress of Steam Shipping

Graphical Determination of the Volume and Surface of Bodies, Generated by Revolution

By Walter G. Berg

Watch Oils

Puget Sound Lumber Works

Improved Gas Regulator

Rock Drilling—The Burleigh Drill

Price's Patent Retort Puddling Furnace at Woolwich Arsenal

Lessons in Mechanical Drawing

By C. W. Maccord

Design for Lyceum or Library

Stewart's Working-Women's Hotel

North Adelaide Model School

The South Park Mines

STAFF CORRESPONDENCE OF THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL

American versus English Locks

WHAT AN ENGLISH WORKMAN THINKS

Real and Manufactured Ornament

Use of Glycerine in Weaving, Dyeing, Printing, and Finishing

By M. H. Herberger

How to Clean and Lacquer Brass

Dyes for Gloves

Curious Facts about the Telephone

By Wm. F. Chaening

The Electric Candle

By Wm. Lucien Scaife

The Davy Lamp

A Remedy for Induction Disturbances in Telephones

Transmission of the President's Message

The State of the Gastric Juice in Typhoid Fever

Physiology

How the Air-Passages are Explored

By F. Seeger

Near-Sightedness

Detection of Bismuth

By W. M. Hutchings

Spontaneous Fermentation

By Mm. Paul Cazeneuve and Charles Livon

Solubility of Sugar in Water

By M. H. Courtonne

Phyllic Acid

New Method of Determining Casein and Fats in Milk

By Julius Lehmann

Dipsomania

Heat, Sulphuric Acid and Water

Incombustible Silicate Board

Iodous Acid

By M. J. Ogier

James Mason and the Centennial Tour-Ney

Philadelphia Centennial Tourney

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