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Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885

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The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1845. It has been a mainstay of popular science with in-depth articles across a broad spectrum of scientific fields. In this supplement are short articles ranging through such topics as Torpedo Ships, The Gas Engine, Capstan Navigation on the Volga, Astronomical Photography, and Sanitary Cooking. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Genre(s): Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics, Chemistry, Life Sciences

Language: English

Group: Scientific American Supplement Issues

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Blaauw Krantz Viaduct in Cape Colony	Larry Wilson	00:06:48
Play 02	Torpedo Ships / A Plumbing Test	Stacey Malcolm	00:03:35
Play 03	The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 1	Verla Viera	00:18:21
Play 04	The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 2	Verla Viera	00:16:27
Play 05	Rapid Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway by E.T. Abbott	BettyB	00:14:15
Play 06	The Osgood Mammoth Excavator / The Osgood Excavator	George Banfield	00:07:22
Play 07	Capstan Navigation on the Volga	Julie Anne Thompson	00:08:11
Play 08	Steamboat Equipment of War Vessels	bilwelvox	00:11:55
Play 09	Improved Steam Trap	Elizabeth Mason	00:04:41
Play 10	Photometrical Standards / Bleaching or Dyeing-Yarns and Goods in Vacuo	Julie Anne Thompson	00:05:11
Play 11	On the Moulding of Porcelain by Charles Lauth	jenno	00:14:14
Play 12	Photo-Tricycle Apparatus / A Photo Printing Light / A New Actinometer	Beau Wood	00:06:14
Play 13	Astronomical Photography	Availle	00:10:04
Play 14	Electricity as a Preventive of Scale in Boilers / Alphabet Designed by Godfrey Sykes	Julie Anne Thompson	00:04:07
Play 15	Brief Sanitary Matters in Connection with Isolated Country Houses by E.W. Bowditch, C.E.	bilwelvox	00:15:39
Play 16	Sanitary Cooking by Virginia L. Oppenheimer, M.D., Seymour, Ind. / Time Required to Digest Different Foods	Erica Brooks	00:21:00
Play 17	The Organization and Plan of The United States Geological Survey by J.W. Powell, Part 1	BettyB	00:16:08
Play 18	The Organization and Plan of The United States Geological Survey by J.W. Powell. Part 2	BettyB	00:14:14
Play 19	The Sunflowers by Charles Wolley-Dod / A Quick Filter	jenno	00:15:09
Play 20	Lye's Fuchsias	Larry Wilson	00:06:13

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Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885