British Lifeboats

Steam Lifeboats.—An Opportunity for Inventors

The Raising of a Wrecked Steamship

Compressed Air for Lifeboats

The Ship Railway

Jackson, Tenn., January 2, 1886.

Refrigerating and Ice-Making Machinery and Appliances

The Prevention of Naphthalene Deposits

The Purification of Water by Alum

Flame Contact.—A New Departure in Water Heating

The Plumber as a Sanitarian

An Improved Method of Cable Working

Domestic Electricity

Cremation of Garbage

On Certain Properties Common to Fluids and Solid Metals

Centenary of Parmentier

Gossypin

The Coloring Principle of Cotton Seed

On the Application of Human Excreta as Manure: The Deportment of Urea toward Soils

New Harbor on West Coast of India

Heart Beats

New Element of the Blood

Distribution of Power in Woolen Mill