Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

The flute is an instrument of _embouchure_--that is to say, one in which a stream of air is driven from the player's lips against an edge of the blow hole to produce the sound....

Besides its more direct use in the chemical analysis of the heavenly bodies, the spectroscope had given to us a great and unexpected power of advance along the lines of the olde...

I have only time to add a few words about the percussion instruments which the military band permits to connect with the wind. Drums are, with the exception of kettle drums, ind...

As France had received her whole culture from the south, and as the crusades especially brought the Roman nation in close contact with them for centuries, so it cannot appear st...

The fifth operation (illustrated in Fig. 5) consists in punching out the portions, _e_, of the core at each side of the cross stay of the link, so as to separate the cross stay...

The Tynwald is 265 feet long, 34 feet 6 inches beam, and 14 feet 6 inches depth moulded, the gross tonnage being 946 tons. The desire of the owners to put the vessel alternately...

"Many things have still to be done, but inventors must not lose the point in view, that no tone quality is more necessary to the composer than that of the clarinet in its full e...

At about 9.30 A.M., M. B----, an American, aged eighteen, the son of a fisherman, a young man of steady habits and a good constitution, with excellent muscular development, and...

I. ASTRONOMY.--The Story of the Universe.--By Dr. WILLIAM HUGGINS.--A valuable account of modern views of the formation of the universe, and of modern methods of studying the pr...

The common method for the manufacture of ammonia is to produce it from the salt known as sal-ammoniac. Sal-ammoniac as a crystal is obtained in various ways, principally from th...