Scientific American

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883

The Cause of Evident Magnetism in Iron, Steel, and other Magnetic Metals.--By Prof. D. E. HUGHES. Neutrality.--Superposed Magnetism.--Elastic Nature of the Ether Surrounding the Magnetic Molecules. 3 figures.

Chapters

5. Chapter 5

The tank must, of course, be set up perfectly level. The pipe from the source of supply--in the present case from the hydraulic ram--must be attached to the upper three way cock...

3. Chapter 3

What I have to say in relation to elevators and motors will be mostly in regard to questions that their uses necessarily bring up for settlement at the water-works office; also...

7. Chapter 7

I have found that when I used blood charcoal or bone coal in place of wood coal it was still more efficient; but it must be mentioned that when they are used they must be purifi...

6. Chapter 6

The effects of diffraction gratings were first discussed, and in two which were shown it was found that in some spectra the visible portions were dimmed; in others the ultra-vio...

1. Chapter 1

The Cause of Evident Magnetism in Iron, Steel, and other Magnetic Metals.--By Prof. D. E. HUGHES. Neutrality.--Superposed Magnetism.--Elastic Nature of the Ether Surrounding the...

2. Chapter 2

Dr. Hooke, 1684, remarked that steel or iron was magnetized when heated to redness and placed in the magnetic meridian. I have slightly varied this experiment by heating to redn...

10. Chapter 10

St. Blaise, the property of Sir Frederick Johnstone, was bred by Lord Alington, and is by Hermit from Fusee. This is an unexceptionable pedigree, for Hermit is now as successful...

8. Chapter 8

"Clinical observation," says Dr. Condereau, "shows that all young infants digest human milk very easily and cow's milk very imperfectly. When it is fed on the latter, in the exc...

4. Chapter 4

I have made some estimates myself for water motors, basing rates upon the number of hours it was claimed the motors would be in use, and afterward supplied the same motors by me...

9. Chapter 9

It is evident that persons who present any of the characters cited in the above list are more infantile or embryonic in those respects than are others; and that those who lack t...

11. Chapter 11

[A very little practice, it seems to the translator, would serve to enable any person of ordinary intelligence to apply this method, or several others which might be suggested....