Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882

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Below is a summary of Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882


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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 362




NEW YORK, DECEMBER 9, 1882

Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 362.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS--Recent Improvements in
Textile Machinery.--Harris's revolving ring spinning frame.--
New electric stop motion.--New positive motion loom. 6 figures.

Spinning Without a Mule.--Harris's improvements in ring
spinning.

New Binding Machines. 3 figures.

Flumes and their construction. 1 figure.

Chuwab's Rolling Mill for Dressing and Rounding Bar Iron.
9 figures.

Burning of Town Refuse at Leeds. 6 figures.--Sections and
elevations of destructor and carbonizer.

II. TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY.--Friedrich Wohler.--His
labors and discoveries.

New Gas Burner. 3 figures.--Grimstone's improved gas burner.

Defty's Improvements in Gas Burners and Heaters. 4 figures.

The Collotype in Practice.

Determination of Potassa in Manures.--By M. E. DREYFUS.

III. HYGIENE, MEDICINE, ETC.--The Air in Relation to Health.
By Prof. C. F. CHANDLER.

The Plantain as a Styptic.

Bacteria.

IV. ELECTRICITY, ETC.--Gustavo Trouve and his Electrical Inventions.
--Portrait of Gustave Trouve.--Trouve's electric boat competing
in the regatta at Troyes.

Domestic Electricity.--Loiseau's electric naphtha and gas
lighters.--Ranque's new form of lighter with extinguisher.

Theiler's Telephone Receiver. 2 figures.

An Electric Power Hammer. By MARCEL DEPRETZ. 1 figure.

Solignac's New Electric Lamp. 3 figures.

Mondos's Electric Lamp. 2 figures.

V. METALLURGY AND MINERALOGY.--Aluminum.--Its properties,
cost, and uses.

The Origin and Relations of the Carbon Minerals.
By J.S. NEWBERRY.--An elaborate and extremely valuable review
of the genesis of carbon minerals, and the modes and conditions
of their occurrence.

Estimation of Sulphur in Iron and Steel. By GEORGE CRAIG.
1 figure.

VI. ARCHITECTURE, ETC.--The Armitage House.

Suggestions in Architecture.--An English country residence.

VII. BOTANY, HORTICULTURE, ETC.--The Soy Bean. 1 figure.--
The Soy bean (_Soja hispida_).

Erica Cavendishiana. 1 figure.