For the Week ending December 18, 1880.
Price 10 cents. For sale by all newsdealers.
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I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Frager's Water Meter. 3 figures.--
Vertical section, horizontal section, and plan 4119
Transmission of Power to a Distance.--Wire ropes--Compressed
air--Water pressure.--Electricity 4120
The Livadia at Sea 4120
The Herreshoff Launch 4121
New Steering Gear. 2 figures.--Steam steering gear for Herreshoff
launch 4121
II. TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY.--Glucose 4126
American Manufacture of Corn Glucose 4126
The Conversions--Starch--Dextrine.--Complete glucose 4126
Depreciation of a Glucose Factory 4126
The Fire Risks of Glucose Factories and Manufactures 4126
Glucose Factory Fires and Ignitions 4127
The Hirsh Process. By Adolf H. Hirsh--Improvement in
the manufacture of sugar from Corn 4127
Time in the Formation of salts. By M. Berthelot 4127
An Old Can of Preserved Meat By G. W. Wigner 4127
Chemistry for Amateurs. 6 figures.--Reaction between nitric
acid and iron.--Experiment with Pharaoh's serpents.--Formation
of crystals of iodide of cyanogen--Experiment with ammoniacal
amalgam.--Pyrophorus burning in contact with the air.--Gold leaf
suspended over mercury 4128
Carbonic Acid in the Atmosphere. 2 figures 4129
On Potash Fulling Soaps By W. J. Menzies 4129
Photography of the Invisible 4134
III. ELECTRICITY. LIGHT, HEAT, ETC.--Exhibition of Gas and
Electric Light Apparatus, Glasgow 4125
Electric Light in the German Navy. 1 illustration. Armored
Frigates Friedrich Karl and Sachsen.--Dispatch Boat Grille, and
Torpedo Boat illuminated by Electric Light 4130
Interesting Facts about Gas and Electricity.--Gas as Fuel.--Gas
for Fire Grates 4130
A New Electric Motor and its Applications. 6 figures. Trouve's
New Electric Motor 4131
On Heat and Light. By Robert Ward 4131
Photophonic Experiments of Prof. Bell and Mr. Tainter. By A.
Bregult 4132
Distribution of Light in the Solar Spectrum. By J. Mace and
W. Nicati 4132
Mounting Microscopic Objects 4132
New Sun Dial. By M. Grootten. 1 figure 4132
Antoine Cesar Becquerel, with portrait 4132
IV. HYGIENE AND MEDICINE.--On the Etiology of the Carbuncular
Disease. By L. Pasteur, assisted by Chamberland and
Roux. An extremely valuable investigation of the nature,
causes, and conditions of animal plagues 4133
Report on Yellow Fever in the U. S. Steamer Plymouth. By the
Surgeon-General in U. S. Navy 4134
Fuchsin in Bright's Disease 4134
V. ART, ARCHITECTURE, ETC.--Artists' Homes. No. 7. Sir Frederick
Leighton's House and Studio. 10 figures. Perspective, plan,
elevation details, etc. 4121
Initials by Eisenlohr and Weigle, in Stuttgart. Full page 4123
Suggestions in Decorative Art. 1 figure. Reserved part of a
Great Saloon. By H. Penox, Paris 4124
Great Saloon (Text) 4124
Cologne Cathedral The Historical Procession 4124
Suggestions in Decorative Art. 1 figure. Mantlepiece in Walnut.
By E. Carpenter 4125
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