Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884

I have directly ascertained that water thus filtered is deprived of all its germs. For this purpose I have added some of it (with the necessary precautions against introducing f...

Another cause of the greater frequency of fires in New York and their more destructive nature is the greater density of population in that city. The London Metropolitan Police D...

Having wounded one of these animals in the lateral part of the belly, we held him with lines fixed to the spears; he then began to describe a very narrow curve, and irritated by...

Next in importance to glass as a support comes paper, and it is quite easy to understand that the tourist in out of the way parts might be able to take an apparatus containing a...

On the Evolution of Forms of Art.--From a paper by Prof. JACOBSTHAL.--Plant Forms the archetypes of cashmere patterns.--Ornamental representations of plants of two kinds.--Archi...

In these illustrations and models we have different portions of ideal rigid matter acting upon one another, by normal pressure at mathematical points of contact--of course no fo...

_Experimental researches_.--All experiments referred to in this paper were made by jets of water under an actual vertical head of 45 ft., but as the supply came through a consid...

_Vaucheria_ has two or three rather doubtful marine species assigned to it by Harvey, but the fresh water forms are by far the more numerous, and it is to some of these I would...

Such remains of pictorial representation as are still extant present us with an equally perfect series of developments. The splendid Græco-Italian vessels, the richly ornamented...

Rich as it is in practical results, the kinetic theory of gases, as hitherto developed, stops absolutely short at the atom or molecule, and gives not even a suggestion toward ex...