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Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 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 Camellias, Experiments in Memory, The Chemical Action of Light, and longer articles on the Gas Engine, and Optical Telegraphy. - Summary by Larry Wilson

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

Language: English

Keyword(s): mining (22), butterflies (9), caverns (4), scientific research (4), camellias (2), science history (2), gas engine (2), grotto of gargas (1), cypress (1), pitcher plant (1) ... [Show full list]

Group: Scientific American Supplement Issues

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Permeability of Sand Rock by Frederick H. Newell, M.E.	Teresa Pierce	00:05:51
Play 02	The Grotto of Gargas	Teresa Pierce	00:11:23
Play 03	Deep Shafts and Deep Mining	Teresa Pierce	00:17:21
Play 04	Remarkable Wells and Caverns / Note on Cholera	Teresa Pierce	00:10:16
Play 05	The Cabbage Butterfly and The Peacock Butterfly	Stacey Malcolm	00:06:16
Play 06	The Bhotan Cypress	Julie Anne Thompson	00:07:06
Play 07	The Pitcher Plant / What Is a Plant?	Teresa Pierce	00:07:32
Play 08	Camellias	Teresa Pierce	00:10:44
Play 09	ArisÆma Fimbriatum	Teresa Pierce	00:02:37
Play 10	Striking a Light	Teresa Pierce	00:04:28
Play 11	Experiments in Memory	Teresa Pierce	00:07:18
Play 12	Sinking of the Quievrechain Working Shaft	Teresa Pierce	00:14:58
Play 13	On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 1	Teresa Pierce	00:13:58
Play 14	On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 2	Teresa Pierce	00:15:28
Play 15	On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 3	Teresa Pierce	00:22:06
Play 16	M. Meizel's Reciprocating Exhauster	Michael Cooper	00:03:51
Play 17	Automatic Siphon for Irrigation / Assay of Earthenware Glaze	Michael Cooper	00:07:00
Play 18	On the Electrical Furnace and the Reduction of the Oxides of Boron, Silicon, Aluminum, and Other Metals by Carbon	Michael Cooper	00:10:30
Play 19	The Cowles Electric Smelting Process	Michael Cooper	00:11:54
Play 20	Optical Telegraphy - Cryptography - Preservation of Telegrams	Teresa Pierce	00:05:29
Play 21	Optical Telegraphy - Use of the Projector in Optical Telegraphy / Capt. Gaumet's Optical Telegraph	Teresa Pierce	00:06:53
Play 22	Optical Telegraphy - Optical Signaling between Bodies of Troops / Optical Telegraphy by Luminous Balloons / Optical Telegraphy in the Marine	Teresa Pierce	00:04:38
Play 23	Optical Telegraphy - A New Style of Submarine Telegraph	Teresa Pierce	00:08:50
Play 24	A New Circuit Cutter	Teresa Pierce	00:03:53
Play 25	New Micro-Telephonic Apparatus	Teresa Pierce	00:04:49
Play 26	Messrs. Kapp and Crompton's Measuring Instruments	Teresa Pierce	00:05:38
Play 27	The Chemical Action of Light	Teresa Pierce	00:04:32
Play 28	Eutexia, by Thomas Turner, Assoc. R.S.M., F.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry, Mason College	Teresa Pierce	00:16:24
Play 29	Chinoline / Method for Rapid Estimation of Urea	Teresa Pierce	00:06:22

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Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885