NO. 259.
For the Week ending December 18, 1880.
Price 10 cents. For sale by all newsdealers.
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| I. | ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.—Frager's Water Meter. 3 figures.—Vertical section, horizontal section, and plan | 4119 |
| Transmission of Power to a Distance.—Wire ropes—Compressed air—Water pressure.—Electricity | 4120 | |
| The Livadia at Sea | 4120 | |
| The Herreshoff Launch | 4121 | |
| New Steering Gear. 2 figures.—Steam steering gear for Herreshoff launch | 4121 | |
| II. | TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY.—Glucose | 4126 |
| American Manufacture of Corn Glucose | 4126 | |
| The Conversions—Starch—Dextrine.—Complete glucose | 4126 | |
| Depreciation of a Glucose Factory | 4126 | |
| The Fire Risks of Glucose Factories and Manufactures | 4126 | |
| Glucose Factory Fires and Ignitions | 4127 | |
| The Hirsh Process. By Adolf H. Hirsh—Improvement in the manufacture of sugar from Corn | 4127 | |
| Time in the Formation of salts. By M. Berthelot | 4127 | |
| An Old Can of Preserved Meat By G. W. Wigner | 4127 | |
| Chemistry for Amateurs. 6 figures.—Reaction between nitric acid and iron.—Experiment with Pharaoh's serpents.—Formation of crystals of iodide of cyanogen—Experiment with ammoniacal amalgam.—Pyrophorus burning in contact with the air.—Gold leaf suspended over mercury | 4128 | |
| Carbonic Acid in the Atmosphere. 2 figures | 4129 | |
| On Potash Fulling Soaps By W. J. Menzies | 4129 | |
| Photography of the Invisible | 4134 | |
| III. | ELECTRICITY. LIGHT, HEAT, ETC.—Exhibition of Gas and Electric Light Apparatus, Glasgow | 4125 |
| Electric Light in the German Navy. 1 illustration. Armored Frigates Friedrich Karl and Sachsen.—Dispatch Boat Grille, and Torpedo Boat illuminated by Electric Light | 4130 | |
| Interesting Facts about Gas and Electricity.—Gas as Fuel.—Gas for Fire Grates | 4130 | |
| A New Electric Motor and its Applications. 6 figures. Trouve's New Electric Motor | 4131 | |
| On Heat and Light. By Robert Ward | 4131 | |
| Photophonic Experiments of Prof. Bell and Mr. Tainter. By A. Bregult | 4132 | |
| Distribution of Light in the Solar Spectrum. By J. Mace and W. Nicati | 4132 | |
| Mounting Microscopic Objects | 4132 | |
| New Sun Dial. By M. Grootten. 1 figure | 4132 | |
| Antoine Cesar Becquerel, with portrait | 4132 | |
| IV. | HYGIENE AND MEDICINE.—On the Etiology of the Carbuncular Disease. By L. Pasteur, assisted by Chamberland and Roux. An extremely valuable investigation of the nature, causes, and conditions of animal plagues | 4133 |
| Report on Yellow Fever in the U. S. Steamer Plymouth. By the Surgeon-General in U. S. Navy | 4134 | |
| Fuchsin in Bright's Disease | 4134 | |
| V. | ART, ARCHITECTURE, ETC.—Artists' Homes. No. 7. Sir Frederick Leighton's House and Studio. 10 figures. Perspective, plan, elevation details, etc. | 4121 |
| Initials by Eisenlohr and Weigle, in Stuttgart. Full page | 4123 | |
| Suggestions in Decorative Art. 1 figure. Reserved part of a Great Saloon. By H. Penox, Paris | 4124 | |
| Great Saloon (Text) | 4124 | |
| Cologne Cathedral The Historical Procession | 4124 | |
| Suggestions in Decorative Art. 1 figure. Mantlepiece in Walnut. By E. Carpenter | 4125 |