Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884

In June, 1883, a wind water works system was erected for the city of McPherson, Kansas, consisting of a 22-foot diameter wind mill on a 75-foot tower, which pumps the water out...

One mile of this railway, 16 in. gauge and 9 lb. steel rail, with sixteen wagons, each having a double equilibrium tipping box containing 11 cubic feet, and all accessories, rep...

Tugs No. I. to Tugs No. V. to IV. VIII. Meters. ft. in. Meters. ft. in. Length between perpendiculars 39 = 126 0 42 = 137 10 Length over all 42.75 = 140 3 45.75 = 150 1 Extreme...

All the knowledge we have of the subject justifies the inference that most of the igneous rocks which have been poured out in our Western Territories are but fused conditions of...

Wire Rope Towage.--Treating of the system of towage by hauling in a submerged wire rope as used on the River Rhine, boats employed, etc.--With engraving of wire rope tug boat.

The duration of the variable state is in proportion to the square of the length of the conductor, so that the difficulties increase very greatly as the wire is extended beyond o...

We need not devote attention to the aims and arrangements of the agricultural colleges proper, but will pass at once to those which deal with the mechanical arts, dealing first...

The brook near where my observations were made was fast decreasing in volume, and would probably continue to do so until in July its bed would be nearly dry. During the wet seas...

There is, especially, a liquor known in the Indian pharmacopoeia under the name of _bang_, that produces an exciting intoxication accompanied with complete insensibility. Now th...

On the 8th of June. 1874, Tresca presented to the French Academy some considerations respecting the distribution of heat in forging a bar of platinum, and stated the principal r...