Scientific American
I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--The Various Modes of Transmitting Power to a Distance. (Continued from No. 274.) By ARTHUR ARCHARD. of Geneva.--II. Compressed Air.--III. Transmission by Pressure Water.--IV. Transmission by Electricity.--General Results
Has it proven in my practice what has been claimed for it--a substitute for the powerful anaesthetics in minor operations in surgery? Most emphatically, yes! So completely has i...
5. Chapter 5In the lower Sacramento the flesh of the quinnat in either spring or fall is rarely pale. In the Columbia, a few with pale flesh are sometimes taken in spring, and a good many i...
4. Chapter 4The Niagara grape received special attention from members. A. C. Younglove, of Yates County, thought it superior to any other white grape for its many good qualities. It was a v...
3. Chapter 3"The system of gradual reduction is much more complicated than either of those which preceded it; but the results obtained are a marked advance over the 'new process.' The perce...
9. Chapter 9Schoene has given the results of an extended series of experiments on the use of thallium paper for estimating approximately the oxidizing material in the atmosphere, whether it...
7. Chapter 7A small slide, Fig. 2, having at one of its angles a very narrow piece of brass, separated in the middle by an insulating surface, used for setting the apparatus in rapid motion...
11. Chapter 11The annulling of pain, and, in some cases, its complete annihilation, can be accomplished in many ways. Narcotics, anaesthetics--local and internal--direct action of cold, and m...
6. Chapter 6The first glimpse of this splendid generalization was caught in 1845, five and thirty years ago, by that prince of pure experimentalists, Michael Faraday. His reasons for suspec...
8. Chapter 8Unless a positive or negative force of gravity is introduced into the problem, independently of the force to be transmitted, the receivers of the water pressure must be assumed...
1. Chapter 1I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--The Various Modes of Transmitting Power to a Distance. (Continued from No. 274.) By ARTHUR ARCHARD. of Geneva.--II. Compressed Air.--III. Transmis...
2. Chapter 2To determine the action of this tissue through its presence, take 100 grammes of wheat, wash it and remove the first coating by decortication; then immerse it for several hours...
12. Chapter 12The President referred to the synthesis of ammonia from its elements recently effected by Donkin, and remarked that apparently the ammonia was formed in much larger quantities b...