Features
The Development of Bridge Construction, with Notices of some Remarkable Historic Bridges
Modern Improvements in the Steam Engine
Howe Truss Timber Bridge Across the Willamette River, Albany, Oregon
Improved Hydraulic Hammer
Lenoir's Petroleum Boat
Timber, and some of its Diseases
Glass Bottle making by Machinery
The Polar Planimeter—Its Theory and its use
The Position and Prospects of Electricity as Applied to Engineering
III.—Electric Lighting.
Improved Primary Battery
Experimental Optics
Apparatus for Fractional Distillation under Reduced Pressure
Saline Fodder Plants
The Chemistry of Substances Taking Part in Putrefaction and Antisepsis
The Spanish National Lottery—New Mechanical Apparatus for Throwing the Numbers
A Northwest Passage
Color in Plants
The Valley of Mogok—Ruby Mines District, Upper Burma
A Large Californian Grape Vine
Mechanical Dentistry
The “Bleeding” of Plants
Catarrh of the Antrum
Building Plans and Specifications
The Etiology of Scarlet Fever
Departments
- Departments
Patents - March 17, 1888