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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 299
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 1881
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XII, No. 299.
Scientific American established 1845
Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year.
Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--On the Progress and development of the Marine
Engine.--Marine engines.--The marine boiler.--Steel boilers.--Corrosion of boilers.--How the marine
engine may be improved.--Consumption of fuel.--Evaporative efficiency of marine locomotive
boilers.--Screw propellers
Steam Ferry Boats of the Port of Marseilles.--2 figures.-- Transverse and longitudinal sections
Opening of a New English Dock. 1 figure
Improved Grain Elevator. 1 figure
Improved Dredger. 1 figure.--Single bucket dipper dredger
Railway Alarm Whistle
Furnace for the Manufacture of Sulphide of Carbon. 1 figure
Brouardel's Dry Inscribing Manometer. 1 figure.--Gas indication of manometer
Centrifugal Apparatus for Casting Metals. 4 figures.--Centrifugal metal moulding apparatus
Apparatus for the Manufacture of Wood Pulp. 2 figures.--Dresel's wood pulp apparatus
Recent Progress of Industrial Science.--Presidential address, Convention of Mechanical Engineers
The Hoboken Drainage Problem
II. TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY--On some Recent Improvements in Lead Processes. By
NORMAN C. COOKSON
Apparatus Used in Berlin for the Preparation of Gelatine Plates.-- I. Mixing apparatus.--II. Digestive
apparatus.--III. Triturating apparatus--IV. Washing apparatus--3 figures
How To Make Emulsions In Hot Weather. By A. L. HENDERSON
The Distillation and Rectification of Alcohols by the Rational Use of Low Temperatures. By RAOUL
PICTET.--1 figure.--Pictet's apparatus for the rectification of alcohol by cold
The Removal of Noxious Vapors from Roasting Furnace Gases
New Gas Exhauster. 1 figure
Advance in the Price of Glycerine
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