Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887

Mr. Jabez Oldfield, of Glasgow, has the reputation of making the best and most reliable link belt in Great Britain. He has also the reputation of being the originator of these b...

A complete knowledge of the disaster which has overtaken her (says the correspondent of the London _Times_, to which we are indebted for the above particulars) will not be obtai...

Portland cement is made largely near Rochester. Its materials are simple and cheap. They may, without much departure from the truth, be said to be Thames mud and chalk; but the...

Great engineering works, such as railway viaducts, the lining of railway tunnels, the piers and even the arches of bridges, sewage works, dock and wharf walls, furnace chimneys,...

The Assyrians and Babylonians made almost exclusive use of brickwork in erecting the vast piles of buildings the shapeless ruins of which mark the site of ancient Nineveh and of...

A New Process of Casting Iron and other Metals upon Lace, Embroideries, Fern Leaves, and other Combustible Materials. --By A.E. OUTERBRIDGE, JR.--A new and eminently practical p...

4. _Faint Stellar Spectra_.--The 28 inch reflector will be used for the study of the spectra of the faint stars, and also for the fainter portions near the ends of the spectra o...

I must now, however, pass on to some other topics. After the proper production of the gas, we have still the processes of purification to consider, and how this operation can be...

In reality, however, the effects of self-induction in causing a lag, shift, or retardation of phase in the secondary current will considerably modify the results, and especially...

A special feature is the presentation in each number of a variety of the latest and best plans for private residences, city and country, including those of very moderate cost as...