| TABLE OF CONTENTS. |
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| I. | [ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--On the Progress anddevelopment of the Marine Engine.--Marine engines.--The marineboiler.--Steel boilers.--Corrosion of boilers.--How the marineengine may be improved.--Consumption of fuel.--Evaporativeefficiency of marine locomotive boilers.--Screw propellers] |
| [Steam Ferry Boats of the Port of Marseilles.--2figures.-- Transverse and longitudinal sections] |
| [Opening of a New English Dock. 1 figure] |
| [Improved Grain Elevator. 1 figure] |
| [Improved Dredger. 1 figure.--Single bucket dipperdredger] |
| [Railway Alarm Whistle] |
| [Furnace for the Manufacture of Sulphide of Carbon.1 figure] |
| [Brouardel's Dry Inscribing Manometer. 1figure.--Gas indication of manometer] |
| [Centrifugal Apparatus for Casting Metals. 4figures.--Centrifugal metal moulding apparatus] |
| [Apparatus for the Manufacture of Wood Pulp. 2figures.--Dresel's wood pulp apparatus] |
| [Recent Progress of IndustrialScience.--Presidential address, Convention of MechanicalEngineers] |
| [The Hoboken Drainage Problem] |
| II. | [TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY--On some RecentImprovements in Lead Processes. By NORMAN C. COOKSON] |
| [Apparatus Used in Berlin for the Preparation ofGelatine Plates.-- I. Mixing apparatus.--II. Digestiveapparatus.--III. Triturating apparatus--IV. Washing apparatus--3figures] |
| [How To Make Emulsions In Hot Weather. By A. L.HENDERSON] |
| [The Distillation and Rectification of Alcohols bythe Rational Use of Low Temperatures. By RAOUL PICTET.--1figure.--Pictet's apparatus for the rectification of alcohol bycold] |
| [The Removal of Noxious Vapors from RoastingFurnace Gases] |
| [New Gas Exhauster. 1 figure] |
| [Advance in the Price of Glycerine] |
| [Analysis of Oils or Mixtures of Oils Used forLubricating Purposes] |
| [Nitrate of Amyl] |
| III. | [ELECTRICITY, ETC.--The Electric Light in EarnockColliery] |
| [Lightning and Telephone Wires] |
| [Conditions of Flames Under the Influence ofElectricity] |
| [The Electric Stop-Motion in the CottonMill] |
| [Electrolytic Determinations and Separations. ByALEX, and M. A. VON REIS.--Determination ofcobalt.--Nickel--Iron.--Zinc.--Manganese.--Bismuth.--Lead.--Copper.--Cadmium.--Tin.--Antimony.--Arsenic.--Separation of iron from manganese.--Iron fromAluminum] |
| IV. | [MEDICINE, SURGERY, ETC.--Treatment of AcuteRheumatism. By ALFRED M. STILLE, M.D.] |
| [Method in Madness] |
| [Simple Methods to Staunch Accidental Hemorrhage.By EDWARD BORCK, M.D.--Bleeding from upper arm.--From arteries inthe upper third of the arm.--From the thigh.--From thefoot] |
| [Hot Water Compresses in Tetanus andTrismus] |
| V. | [AGRICULTURE, ETC.--The Cultivation of Pyrethrumand Manufacture of Powder] |
| [Trials of String Sheaf Binders at Derby,England] |
| [The Culture of Strawberries.--Gardenculture.--Field culture] |
| [Some Hardy Flowers for Midsummer] |
| [The Time Consuming Match] |
| VI. | [ARCHITECTURE, ART, ETC.--Suggestions inDecorative Art. 1 figure.--Silver ewer by Odiot, Paris] |
| [Artists' Homes. No. l4.--Bent's Brook, Holmwood,Surrey, Eng.-- 6 figures.--Perspective, elevations, andplans] |
| VII. | [OBITUARY.--Achille Delesse, eminent as geologistand mineralogist] |
