| TABLE OF CONTENTS. |
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| I. | [ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.—The RighiRailroad.—With 3 engravings.] |
| [The Chinese Pump.—1 figure.] |
| [The Water Clock.—3 figures.] |
| [New Self-propelling and Steering Torpedoes.] |
| [Dobson and Barbour's Improvements in Heilmann'sCombers.—1 figure.] |
| [Machine for Polishing Boots and Shoes.] |
| II. | [TECHNOLOGY.—The Use of Gas in theWorkshop.—By T. FLETCHER.—Placing of lights.—Bestburners.—Light lost by shades.—Use of theblowpipe.—Gas furnaces.—Gas engines.] |
| [The Gas Meter.—3 figures.] |
| [The Municipal School for Instruction inWatchmaking at Geneva.—1 engraving.] |
| III. | [ELECTRICITY, ETC.—Personal Safety with theElectric Currents.] |
| [A Visit to Canada and the United States; or,Electricity in America in 1884.—By W.H. PREECE.] |
| IV. | [ARCHITECTURE.—The House of a ThousandTerrors, Rotterdam.—With engraving.] |
| V. | [GEOLOGY.—On the Origin and Structure ofCoal,—With full page of illustrations.] |
| VI. | [POLITICAL ECONOMY.—Labor and Wages inAmerica.—By D. PIDGEON.—Who and what are theoperatives.—Native labor.—Alien employes.—Housingof labor.—Sobriety.—Pauperism.—Artisans'homes.—Interest of employer in the condition of hisemployes.—Wages in Europe and America.—Expenditures ofworkingmen.—Free trade and protection.] |
| VII. | [MISCELLANEOUS.—Ice Boat Races on theMueggelsee, near Berlin.—With engraving.] |
| VIII. | [BIOGRAPHY.—DUPUY DE LOME—Withportrait.] |
