SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 388
NEW YORK, June 9, 1883
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XV., No. 388.
Scientific American established 1845
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I.
ENGINEERING.—Farcot's Improved Woolf Compound Engine.—4 figures.
The "Swallow," a New Vehicle.
Boring an Oil Well.
A Cement Reservoir.—2 figures.
"Flying."
II.
TECHNOLOGY.—Iron and Steel.—By BARNARD SAMUELSON.The world's production of pig iron.—Wonderful uses and demandsfor iron and steel.—Progress of Bessemer steel.—Latestimprovements in iron making.—Honors and rewards to inventors.—Growthof the Siemens-Martin process.—The future of iron andsteel.—Relations between employers and workmen.
Machine for Grinding Lithographic Inks and Colors.—1 figure.
A new Evaporating apparatus.—2 figures.
Photo Plates.—Wet and Dry.
Gelatino Bromide Emulsion with Bromide of Zinc.
The Removal of Ammonia from Crude Gas.
III.
MEDICINE AND HYGIENE.—The Hair, its Uses and its Care.The Influence of Effective Breathing in Delaying the PhysicalChanges Incident to the Decline of Life, and in the Preventionof Pneumonia. Consumption, and Diseases of Women.—By DAVIDWARK. M.D.—Pneumonia.—The true first stage of Consumption. Thedevelopment of tubercular matter in the blood.—The value ofcod-liver oil in the prevention of consumption.—The influenceof normal breathing on the female generative organs—Showing howthe breathing powers may be developed.—The effects of adequaterespiration in special cases.
Vital Discoveries in Obstructed Air and Ventilation.
IV.
ELECTRICITY.—The Portrush Electric Railway, Ireland.—By Dr. EDWARD HOPKINSON.
The Thomson-Houston Electric Lighting System.—4 figures.
A Modification of the Vibrating Bell.—2 figures.
IV.
CHEMISTRY.—Acetate of Lime.
Reconversion of Nitroglycerine into Glycerine. By C.L. BLOXAM.
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