| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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| I. | [ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Machine for MakingElectric Light Carbons.--2 figures] |
| [The Earliest Gas Engine] |
| [The Moving of Large Masses.--With engravings ofthe removal of a belfry at Cresentino in 1776, and of the wingedbulls from Nineveh to Mosul in 1854] |
| [Science and Engineering.--The relation they bearto one another. By WALTER R. BROWNE] |
| [Hydraulic Plate Press.--With engraving] |
| [Fast Printing Press for Engravings.--Withengraving] |
| [French Cannon] |
| [Apparatus for Heating by Gas.--5 figures] |
| [Improved Gas Burner for Singeing Machines.--1figure] |
| II. | [TECHNOLOGY.--China Grass, or Rhea.--Differentprocesses and apparatus used in preparing the fiber forcommerce] |
| III. | [ARCHITECTURE.--Woodlands, Stoke Pogis,Bucks.--With engraving.] |
| IV. | [ELECTRICITY, LIGHT, ETC.--Volta ElectricInduction as Demonstrated by Experiment.--Paper read by WILLOUGHBYSMITH before the Society of Telegraph Engineers andElectricians.--Numerous figures] |
| [On Telpherage.--The Transmission of vehicles byelectricity to a distance.--By Prof. FLEEMING JENKIN] |
| [New Electric Battery Lights] |
| [The Siemens Electric Railway at ZankerodaMines.--3 figures] |
| [Silas' Chronophore.--3 figures] |
| V. | [NATURAL HISTORY.--A New Enemy of the Bee] |
| [Crystallization of Honey] |
| [An Extensive Sheep Range] |
| VI. | [HORTICULTURE, ETC.--The Zelkowas.--With fulldescription of the tree, manner of identification, etc., andseveral engravings showing the tree as a whole, and the leaves,fruit, and flowers in detail] |
| VII. | [MEDICINE, HYGIENE, ETC.-The Disinfection of theAtmosphere. --Extract from a lecture by Dr. R.J. LEE, delivered atthe Parkes Museum of Hygiene. London] |
| [A New Method of Staining BacillusTuberculosis] |
| [Cure for Hemorrhoids] |
