NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1880.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT
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 |