Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 363
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 16, 1882
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 363.
Scientific American established 1845
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--The New York Canals.--
Their history, dimensions, and commercial influence
Cottrau's Locomotive for Ascending Steep Grades.--1 figure
Bachmann's Steam Drier--3 figures
H. S. Parmelee's Patent Automatic sprinkler.--2 figures
Instrument for Drawing Converging Straight Lines.--10 figures
Feed Water Heater and Purifier. By GEO. S. STRONG.--2 figures
Paper Making "Down East."
Goulier's Tube Gauge.--1 figure.-Plan and longitudinal and
transverse sections
Soldering Without an Iron
Working Copper Ores at Spenceville
II. TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY-New Method of Detecting
Dyes on Yarns and Tissues. By JULES JOFFRE.--Reagents.--Red
colors.--Violet colors
Chevalet's Condenso-purifier for Gas.--2 figures.--Elevation and
plan
Artificial Ivory
Creosote Impurities. By Prof P. W. BEDFORD
III. ELECTRICITY. ETC.--Sir William Thomson's Pile--2 figures
Siemens' Telemeter.--1 figure.--Siemens electric telemeter
Physics Without Apparatus.--Experiment in static electricity.--
1 figure
The Cascade Battery. By F. HIGGINS.--1 figure
Perfectly Lovely Philosophy
IV. ASTRONOMY, ETC.--The Comet as seen from the Pyramids
near Cairo, Egypt.--1 figure
Sunlight and skylight at High Altitudes.--Influence of the
atmosphere upon the solar spectrum.--Observations of Capt.
Abney and Professor Langley.--2 figures
How to Establish a True Meridian
V. MINERALOGY.--The Mineralogical Localities in and Around
New York City, and the Minerals Occurring Therein. By NELSON
H. DAKTON. Part III.--Hoboken minerals.--Magnesite.--Dolomite.
--Brucite.--Aragonite.--Serpentine.--Chromic iron--Datholite.
--Pectolite.--Feldspar.--Copper mines, Arlington, N.J.-Green
malachite.--Red oxide of copper.--Copper glance.--Erubescite
VI. ENTOMOLOGY.--The Buckeye Leaf Stem Borer
Defoliation of Oak Trees by _Dryocampa senatoria_ in Perry
County, Pa.
Efficacy of Chalcid Egg Parasites
On the Biology of _Gonatopis Pilosus_, Thoms
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