Part 10

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN for July, 1878, with Eighty-one Engravings.

=GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.=

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 Chickering Pianos. The Ingersoll Rock Drill. Photo-engraving. The Paper Product of the United States. Electrical Indicator for Exhibiting the Rotation of the Earth. Two engravings. The Elevated Railroad Nuisance. Steam Boilers. Progress of our Western Industries. The Decline of the Whaling Industry. Transmitting Power by Electricity. Native Magnesium Salts. Scientific American Export Edition for June. The Eothen Arctic Expedition. Patent Matters in Congress. The Turkish Bath. Remarkable Locomotive Performances. The United States Building at the Paris Exposition. Recent Ship Designs. Figures which Seem Untruthful. The Hotchkiss Ship's Log. Starting New Industries. The Telephone at Sea. Horizontal Condensing Engine at the Exposition. One engraving. Deep Boring. Whitening Positives. Mr. Thomas A. Edison. One engraving. Patteson's Improved Car Coupling. One engraving. Project for Increasing the Water Power of Pennsylvania. A Japanese Built Ironclad. A Great Public Nuisance.--The Steam Street Railways New York City. What the South Owes New England. New Mechanical Inventions. Iridescent Glass. Fast Paper Making. Effect of Gas on Cotton Goods. Electrotypes of the Brain. Astronomical Notes for July. With Three figures, giving the Positions, Rising and Setting of the Planets. Sun Spots. Removing Spots from Cloths. "American" New Process Milling. New Agricultural Inventions. A Defense of Sludge Acid. Shad Hatching at Havre de Grace, Md. Improved Wrench. Two engravings. A Drygoods Palace Car. Radial Drilling Machine. One engraving. Improved Self-oiling Car Wheel. Three engravings. The Whitehead Torpedo. One engraving. A Californian Wheat Farm. Edison's Telephonic Researches. Eleven figures. New Inventions. New Electric Light. Quick Freight Time. The Adams Gas Process. Three engravings. The Invention of the Microphone. Preparation of Iron Fuels. Millstones. An Hour with Edison. Four engravings. Suspension Bridge Accident. Mill Explosion Science. Learn Something. Unsuitable Steam Vessels. One engraving. Our Naval Tubs. Leaves and their Functions. Lever and Cam Valve. Two engravings. An Ingenious Toy. One engraving. Milk as a Substitute for Blood Transfusion. Dr. Brown-Sequard. Odd Uses of Paraffin. American Institute Exhibition. Solidification of Petroleum. A Simple Fire-escape. Mr. Edison on the Microphone. Driving Piles in Sand. Is our Globe Hollow? The Best Penwiper. The Etiology of Asiatic Cholera.--A New Theory. Diagnosis. Proposed Process for the Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen. Two figures. Hallucinations. Perils of Base-ball Playing. Music Boxes. Electric Light Photography. Improved Beehive. Three engravings. A Good Act. Improved Gas Condenser. Two engravings. American Crop Prospects. The Launch of the Nipsic. The Swiss House at the French Exposition. One engraving. The Ingenuity of Bees. The St. Benoit Twins. One engraving. Improved Method of Milling. A Remarkable Meteoric Phenomenon. Drinking Water. Where to Observe the Solar Eclipse of July 29th. Explorations and Surveys. Tests for Good Burning Oil. Curious Hedge Figures. One engraving. Food Supply of Paris. The Leona Goat Sucker. One engraving. Oatmeal. Salt in Beer. Dr. Morfit's Method of Preserving Animal and Vegetable Food. The Ring of Fire, and the Volcanic Peaks of the West Coast of the United States. To Imitate Ground Glass. Railroad Birds. Improved Variable Automatic Cut-off. Four engravings. The Uses of Mechanism. Working Gold Ores. The Sun. With nine engravings. An excellent paper. Professor Edison's New Carbon Rheostat. Two engravings. The Chase Elemental Governor. Two engravings. Chinese Wine Powder. Amber Varnish. The Alkaloids of Opium. Microscopy. Is the Moon Inhabited? Description of the Recent Most Important Mechanical Inventions. Counterfeiting American Goods. The Steam Street Railways of New York City. Improved Piston Rod Stuffing Box. One engraving. Improved Automatic Fan. One engraving. Wandering Needles. Improved Step Box. One engraving. Heat Conductivity. New Volcano in Peru. Wood Carver of Simla. One engraving. Natural History Notes. Belgium, Holland, and England. Jointed Artillery. The Armstrong 100-ton Gun. The Phonograph. Scientific American Boat Drawings. Wire Tramway Worked by Water Wheels. Shell Polishing. Floating Batteries at Kertch. Apparatus for Administering Medicine to Horses. One engraving. Apprentice Shops for the Boys. A Boat Older than the Ark. Three figures. Employment of Ships against Forts. The Otto Bicycle. One engraving. A Simple Gas Generator. One engraving. Labor in Scotland. The Cattle Drives of 1878. Effects of Emancipation. A New Trouble with French Wines. The New Twin Steamer "Calais-Douvres." One engraving. Industrial Drawing and Art Studies. Vulcanizing Rubber. Strawberries and Constipation. Professor Langley's Papers on the Sun. Destruction vs. Construction of Ironclads. How Raisins are Prepared. The Sun.--A Total Eclipse. With six engravings. The Bishop of Manchester on British Trade Depression. A New Insect Pest. Death of a Giant. Edison's Phonomotor. Two engravings. Excavating Scoop. One engraving. Treatment of Acute Rheumatism. How a Horse Trots. Danger of Carbolic Acid Dressings. Welded Union and Rebel Bullets. One engraving. Indicator of a Steamboat Engine. A Remedy for the Effects of the Poison Ivy. Thymol. Copper Oysters. The Use of Antimony in Batteries. Photographs on Silk. How to Use a File. A valuable practical paper. Our Iron Industry. Two Ways of Looking at the Same Facts. New Screw-cutting Lathe. One engraving. New Cloth Measuring Apparatus. One engraving. Moth Remedies. Gampert's Wood-sole Shoe. Three engravings. Science and Sentiment. American Coal in Europe. An Active Volcano in the Moon. Tic-douloureux. Landing of Cleopatra's Needle. One large engraving. Heat Conductivity. The Total Eclipse of the Sun, July 29. Two figures. New Iron Fence. Two engravings. The Adjutant. One engraving. A New Disinfectant. The Curiosities of Tobacco. Preserving Fish by Hydraulic Pressure.

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