Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891

It required a good deal of nerve for the pioneers of Fresno County to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in bringing water upon what the old settlers regarded as a desert, f...

At first it seems easy to explain the reason why a sudden fall in temperature should lead to an increase in the number of deaths, and it is to be admitted that, to a certain ext...

The launch shown in our illustration was built in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. She is 42 ft. keel and 7 ft. beam, and has 4 ft. depth of hold. She has an improved...

The fruit, upon which so much stress is laid in the study of the family, is compound, of two similar parts or carpels, each of which contains a seed. In ripening the parts separ...

The applications are multitudinous. In the first place, in certain difficult cases, it may serve for the observation of a swinging thermometer, which is then read during its mot...

On the other hand it is to be specially noticed that, with a few unimportant exceptions, all bituminous deposits are found in the sedimentary rocks, and that just as these are c...

A further advantage presented by the direct process described in this paper is that the Bessemer works is independent of the time at which the individual blast furnaces are tapp...

III. DECORATIVE ART.--The Decorative Treatment of Natural Foliage.--By HUGH STANNUS. The first of a series of lectures before the London Society of Arts, giving an elaborate cla...

Similarity of serrated Symmetry induces Geometrical leaf-edge to the Akanthos Severity, and the Omission plant, is observed; of all details of the Imitation becomes more origina...

forms an amorphous mass with a bronze-like luster; it is sparingly soluble in water, freely so in alcohol, its alcoholic solution being strongly dichroic; its green colored solu...