Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886

The motor by itself occupies a length of 9 ft. 8 in. It has two horizontal cylinders; the four wheels of the bogie are coupled, and between the wheels the sides of the framing a...

The Mersey Tunnel was lately opened by the Prince of Wales, and, as the London _Standard_ says, after an infancy of troubles and failures, and a ten years' middle age of inactio...

Dr. F. Hueppe, who has paid great attention to this subject, describes five distinct organisms which he finds to be invariable accompaniments of lactic fermentation. One of thes...

Standing in the presence of so many of those who have dignified the profession of engineering, I should hesitate to express my views on this subject did I not believe that many...

That is, in 1 chloride of lime and carbonic acid react upon each other, producing chalk and nascent chlorine; in 2 the nascent chlorine reacts upon the water of the solution and...

Dew.--Abstract of a paper read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh.--By Mr. AITKEN.--Source of dew.--Observations of the temperature of the ground.--Experiments.--Effects of w...

The fibers of dyed black silk may be viewed with interest under the microscope. If a few threads of its warp are placed on a glass slide, and one or two drops of concentrated ni...

Dr. C.T. Jackson analyzed a portion of one meteorite weighing 4½ oz.; the piece was 2½ in. long, 1¼ in. wide, and 1 in. in average thickness. In the course of his report he stat...

In deciding upon the relative merits of the several motors, so far as the eight points included under this heading are concerned, it is clear that, except possibly as regards ab...

As the need of creating new models is always making itself felt, one ingenious manufacturer, Mr. Collin, has turned toward the vegetable kingdom, and brought out an elegant and...