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| I. | [ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.—Watchman's Detecter.] | 5023 |
| [Integrating Apparatus.] | 5023 |
| [A Canal Boat Propelled by Air.] | 5023 |
| [Head Linings of Passenger Cars.] | 5023 |
| [Improved Mortar Mixer. 2 figures.] | 5023 |
| [Practical Notes on Plumbing. By J.P. Davies. Figs. 37 to 53. Tinning iron pipes, copper or brass work, bits, etc.—Spirit brush.—Soldering iron to lead.— Dummies for pipe bending.—Bends and set-offs.— Bending with water.—Sand bending.—Bending with balls or bobbins.—Three-ball or lead driving ball and double ball bending.—Bending with windlass and brass ball.—Hydraulic or cup leather and ball bending.—Bending by splitting, or split made bends. —Pulling up bends.—Set-offs.—Bad bends.—Bad falls in bends.—Bends made into traps or retarders. —Bends made with the "snarling dummy."] | 5024 |
| [The Grossenhain Shuttle Driver. 1 figure.] | 5025 |
| II. | [ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, ETC.—The Electro-Magnetic Apparatus of Dr. Pacinotti. 8 figures. The Pacinotti electro-magnetic machine of 1860.—The Elias electro-motor of 1842.] | 5015 |
| [The Elias Electro-Motor.] | 5016 |
| [Bjerknes's Experiments. 7 figures.] | 5016 |
| [The Arc Electric Light. By Leo Daft.] | 5018 |
| [Hedges' Electric Lamps. 4 figures.] | 5019 |
| [Electric Railway Apparatus at the Paris Electrical Exhibition. 17 figures. Lartigue's switch controller, elevation and sections.—Position of commutators during the maneuver.—Pedal for sending warning to railway crossing, with elevation and end and plan views.—Electric Alarm.—Lartigue's bellows pedal, with plan and sections.—Brunot's Controller. —Guggemos' correspondence apparatus.—Annunciator apparatus.—Lartigue's controller for water tanks.— Vérité controller for water tanks.] | 5019 |
| [The Telephonic Halls of the Electrical Exhibition. 1 figure.] | 5022 |
| [The Action of Cold on the Voltaic Arc.] | 5022 |
| III. | [TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY.—Industrial Art for Women.] | 5026 |
| [Photography upon Canvas. 1 figure.] | 5026 |
| [Detection of Starch Sugar Sirup Mixed with Sugar House Molasses.] | 5026 |
| [False Vermilion.] | 5026 |
| [The Position of Manganese in Modern Industry.—By M.V. Deshaeys. Ferro-manganese.—Cupro-manganese.— Manganese bronzes.—Metallic manganese.—Manganese German silver.—Phosphorus bronze.] | 5027 |
| [The Economical Washing of Coal Gas and Smoke.—M. Chevalet's method.] | 5027 |
| [Determination of Nitrogen in Hair, Wool, Dried Blood, Flesh Meal, and Leather Scraps. By Dr. C. Krauch.] | 5028 |
| [Testing White Beeswax for Ceresine and Paraffine. By A. Peltz.] | 5028 |
| [The Prevention of Alcoholic Fermentation by Fungi. By Prof. E. Reichard.] | 5028 |
| [New Reaction of Glycerine.] | 5028 |
| [Lycopodine.] | 5028 |
| [Conchinamine.] | 5028 |
| [Chinoline.] | 5028 |
| [Preparation of Coniine.] | 5028 |
| [Strontianite.] | 5028 |
| IV. | [MISCELLANEOUS.—Household and Other Recipes. Christmas plum pudding.—Plum pudding sauce.— National plum pudding and sauce.—Egg nog.—Egg flip.—Roast Turkey.—Woodcock and Snipe.—Canvas-back duck.—Pheasants.—Wild ducks.—Wild fowl sauce.—Brown fricassee of rabbits.—Orange pudding. —Venison pastry.—Christmas red round.—Plum porridge.—Sugared pears.—Table beer.—Mince meat. —Pumpkin pie.—Brandy punch.—Bœuf a la mode.— Punch jelly.—Orange salad.—Cranberry jelly.—Plum cake.—Black cake.—Potatoes.] | 5029 |
| [The Bayeux Tapestry Comet.] | 5030 |
| [Synthetic Experiments on the Artificial Reproduction of Meteorites.] | 5030 |
| V. | [HYGIENE AND MEDICINE.—Parangi; a newly described disease.] | 5029 |
| [A Castor Oil Substitute.] | 5029 |
| [Lack of Sun Light.] | 5030 |
