Scientific American

Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.—No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878

Subscripts have been rendered using braces, so that the formula for sulphuric acid is shown as "H{2}SO{4}", and the formula for water, if it had appeared, would have been shown as "H{2}O".

Chapters

2. Part 2

When, with a powerful telescope, we return to the study of the sun's surface, we meet a formidable difficulty which our first simple means did not present. This arises from the...

6. Part 6

From an interesting article on the wool trade of the Pacific coast, published in a recent number of the San Francisco _Journal of Commerce_, we learn that the number of sheep in...

3. Part 3

Perhaps some of our readers may have seen a description of a form of thermometer devised by MM. Negretti and Zambra for the purpose of ascertaining the temperature of the ocean...

4. Part 4

Dr. G. R. Thomas, of Detroit, in the current number of the _Dental Cosmos_, states that this operation of "replanting" has become so common with him, and the results so uniforml...

7. Part 7

A contributor to _Nature_ describes the remarkable poisoning of Lake Alexandrina--one of the bodies of water which form the estuary of the Murray river, Australia. This year the...

5. Part 5

In his report for 1876, Director Draper, of the New York Meteorological Observatory in Central Park, showed that a careful examination of the records in his office proved that t...

1. Part 1

Subscripts have been rendered using braces, so that the formula for sulphuric acid is shown as "H{2}SO{4}", and the formula for water, if it had appeared, would have been shown...

10. Part 10

Brewster's Carriage Manufactory, New York. One engraving. The Parlor or Cabinet Organs of Mason & Hamlin. The New Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine. Howe's Improved Scales. The Ch...

9. Part 9

Acid, recovering waste sulphuric, A. Penissat 204,244 Axle box slide, car, G. Williams 204,178 Axle nut, adjustable, O. B. Thompson 204,399 Axles, sand guard for carriage, M. C....

11. Part 11

The great fall which has taken place in the prices of Iron, and especially in Beams used in the construction of FIRE PROOF BUILDINGS, induces us to call the special attention of...

12. Part 12

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8. Part 8

(12) F. C. A. writes: I wish to construct a bar electro-magnet to go in a cylinder 1 inch in diameter and 1 inch long. 1. What size ought the core to be? What number of wire sha...