Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885

I will now show you by a practical utilization of the well known flameless combustion, how to light a coke furnace without either paper or wood, and without disturbing the fuel,...

From St. Louis I went to Indianapolis, thence to Pittsburg, where they have struck most extraordinary wells of natural gas. Borings are made in the earth from the crust to a dep...

When you want a thing, you must pay for it. The Americans want the telephone, and they pay for it. In London people grumble very much at having to pay £20 to the Telephone Compa...

On the top of the detaching roller is a large steel fluted roller carried at each end by a small arm called a "horse tail." In the original machine this roller simply kept its p...

VI. POLITICAL ECONOMY.--Labor and Wages in America.--By D. PIDGEON.--Who and what are the operatives.--Native labor.--Alien employes.--Housing of labor.--Sobriety.--Pauperism.--...

In our description we have only given the main features of the invention, the inventor having mentioned to us, in confidence, several improvements designed to perfect the detail...

Aside from the fact that anthracite is not met with solely in the lower coal measures, but is found in the middle and upper ones, and that bituminous coal itself is met with qui...

Still, if we limit ourselves to a comparison of the same carbonized wood, preserved on the one hand by petrifaction, and on the other hand non-mineralized, we find a very percep...

The city of Holyoke, another great cotton center, having 23,000 inhabitants, is in some respects the most remarkable town in the State of Massachusetts. It was brought into exis...

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