Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
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The Steamer Churchill, built by Messrs. Hall, Russell & Co., for
service at Natal.--With full page of illustrations Three-Way Tunnels Falconetti's Continuously Primed Siphon.--Manner of carrying a water course over a canal, river, or road.--With engraving The Weibel-Piccard System of Evaporating Liquids.-- 2 illustrations II. TECHNOLOGY.--Coal Gas as a Labor--saving Agent in Mechanical Trades.--By T. FLETCHER.--Gas as fuel.--Arrangement of burners for disinfection, for drying glue, albumen, etc.--Best burners. --Gas bars for furnaces, etc. Instantaneous Photography.--Several illustrations III. ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, ETC.--Electric Launches.--A paper read before the Society of Arts by A. RECKENZAUN, and discussion on the same.--Advantages of electromotive power.-- Cost of same.--Experimental electric launches First Experiments with the Electric Light.--Sir Humphry Davy's experiments in 1813,--With two engravings Electrical Grapnel for Submarine Cables and Torpedo Lines.-- 3 figures Hughes' New Magnetic Balance.--1 figure |
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