Features
The Late Sir Rowland Hill
The Bradford Oil District of Pennsylvania
The Most Economical Speed for Steamships of the Navy
“Orient”
Life-Saving Rafts
Screws Versus Paddles
The French Armor Plated Ship the “Admiral Duperre”
Anti-Fire Construction
Economy of Fuel
Electricity as a Motive Power
Electrical Clocks and Clockwork
On Lightning Protectors for Telegraphic Apparatus
Sewer Ventilation in Berlin
Starch Photo Plates
Fischer's Pyrometer
Quantitative Determination of Cadmium
The Brooks Underground Telegraph Cable
An Improved Method of Making Phosphorus Pills
On the Cure of Consumption
A New Method of Making Tincture of Iodine
Notes on Cinchona Bark
Meteorological Registers
Meteors
Dental Transplanting
New Mode of Harvesting Wheat
Distances for Grapes
A New Test for the Presence of Biliary Coloring Matter in the Urine
Palisa Comet II, 1878
The Planet Jupiter
How our Ancestors in the Stone Age Made their Implements
Is Nest Building an Instinct in Birds?
Notes on the Thrushes of Washington Territory
Isinglass from Sea-Weeds
Sea Weed
What it is Composed of, and the Many Uses to Which it is Put
