Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 360




NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 25, 1882

Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 360.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Soaking Pits for Steel Ingots.
--On the successful rolling of steel ingots with their own
initial heat by means of the soaking pit process. By JOHN GJERS.
6 figures.--Gjers' soaking pits for steel ingots.

Tempering by compression.--L. Clemandot's process.

Economical Steam Power. By WILLIAM BARNET LE VAN.

Mississippi River Improvements near St. Louis, Mo.

Bunte's Burette for the Analysis of Furnace Gases. 2 figures.

The "Universal" Gas Engine. 8 figures.--Improved gas engine.

Gas Furnace for Baking Refractory Products. 1 figure.

The Efficiency of Fans. 5 figures.

Machine for Compressing Coal Refuse into Fuel. 1 figure.--
Bilan's machine.

Hank Sizing and Wringing Machine. 1 figure.

Improved Coke Breaker. 2 figures.

Improvements in Printing Machinery. 2 figures.

II. TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY.--Apparatus for Obtaining
Pure Water for Photographic Use. 3 figures.

Black Phosphorus.--By P THENARD.

Composition of Steep Water

Schreiber's Apparatus for Revivifying Bone Black. 5 figures.--
Plant: elevation and plan.--Views of elevation.--Continuous
furnace.

Soap and its Manufacture from a Consumer's Point of View.
(Continued from SUPPLEMENT, No. 330).

Cotton seed Oil.--By S. S. BRADFORD.

On some Apparatus that Permit of Entering Flames.--Chevalier
Aldini's wire gauze and asbestos protectors.--Brewster's account
of test experiments.

III. ELECTRICITY, LIGHT. ETC.--On a New Arc Electric Lamp.
By W. H. PREECE. 6 figures--The Abdank system.--The lamp.--
The Electro-magnet.--The Cut-off.--The electrical arrangement.

Utilization of Solar Heat.

IV. NATURAL HISTORY.--The Ocellated Pheasant. 1 figure.

The Maidenhair Tree in the Gardens at Broadlands, Hants,
England. 1 figure.

The Woods of America.--The Jessup collection in the American
Museum of Natural History, Central Park, and the characteristics
of the specimens.

V. AGRICULTURE, ETC.--An Industrial Revolution.--Increase in
the number of farms.

A Farmer's Lime Kiln. 3 figures.

The Manufacture of Apple Jelly.