Scientific American
II. Electrical.--The Construction and Maintenance of Underground Circuits.--By S.B. FOWLER.--A comprehensive article, discussing at length the various devices for protecting underground circuits, methods _of_ inserting the cables, etc.
The first thing to do is to get the cable drawn into the ducts, and on the proper accomplishment of this depends to a great extent the success or failure of the whole installati...
4. Chapter 4If what I have here claimed for the above smokeless powder be true, it would appear that it may be taken as really an ideal smokeless powder. Why, then, has it not already been...
3. Chapter 3The question concerning the origin of this organic substance or its combination with lime can only be answered in one way, viz., that it must have been washed by the rain water...
8. Chapter 8Within the closet, in the left hand corner, a tall wooden box was placed, about two-thirds full of dry, well sifted wood ashes. The box also contained a small long-handled fire...
9. Chapter 9For the obese from default of disassimilation, Robin recommends a regimen of green vegetables and bread chiefly--the latter in small quantities, however, and fluids as may be de...
6. Chapter 6The Rigi road has several special features aside from its terrific slopes which entitle it to be considered a triumph of the engineer's skill. About midway up the mountains the...
1. Chapter 1II. Electrical.--The Construction and Maintenance of Underground Circuits.--By S.B. FOWLER.--A comprehensive article, discussing at length the various devices for protecting und...
7. Chapter 7_Screw Propeller_.--In Mr. Marshall's paper of 1881 it was said that "the screw propeller is still to a great extent an unsolved problem." This was at the time a fairly true rem...
2. Chapter 2The filtrate is then poured into a cylinder capable of holding 100 cubic centimeters, and furnished with a scale; sufficient distilled water is then added until the well-shaken...
11. Chapter 11The yield of furfuraldehyde by the breaking down of arabin and metarabin was thought possibly to be of some value in differentiating the natural gums from one another, but we ha...
10. Chapter 10+--------------+------------+---------- Sample. | [eta] | [eta] | Z Water | Uncorrected. | Corrected. | = 100. ---------------------+--------------+------------+---------- Gum a...
12. Chapter 12In carrying out my improved process in and with the apparatus employed in ordinary commercial distilleries, says Mr. Alfred Springer, of Cincinnati, O., I preferably employ sepa...