Scientific American - 11 August 1894

Front Cover of the Scientific American for 11 August 1894. GGA Image ID # 1015c823d5

The 11 August 1894 issue of the Scientific American featured articles included Wellman's Artic Expedition, Building of a Battleship, Testin Bullet-Proof Clothing, Phonograph in Classroom, New American Ocean Steamers, and many more.

Contents

(Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.)

• Alloy, improved 82
• American Association 82
• Arctic expedition, Wellman's 91
• Battleship, building of a 86
• Battleship Le Carnot 91
• Brooms, manufacture of* 85
• Bullet-proof clothing, test 84
• Cable, a new Atlantic 85
• Canal boat traction 87
• Canals, inter-coastal 86
• Cannon ball, force of a 91
• Cars, electric mail 82
• Check rein support. 84
• Cities, growth of 83
• Construction, slow burning 83
• Coupler tests, automatic. 88
• Earthquake in Constantinople 82
• Electric welding of rail joints• 91
• Engineering profession character in 87
• Exhibition, Paris, 1900 85
• Explosion of silvering mixture 84
• Fire In Chicago, a large 86
• Fireproof building, increase of 91
• Gas explosion, curiously caused 92
• Ingersoll, Simon 88
• Inventions recently patented 93
• Mining, drift in California 89
• Moon, the 90
• Padrone robbers 83
• Patents granted, weekly record 93
• Peach ratafla (6176) 93
• Phonograph in class room 84 Photographs, paste for mounting (6179) 93
• Pigeons, tumbler, training Plague, the, in China 89
• Punches 84
• Railroads, great 91
• Railway mileage of the world 90
• Railways, inclined plane, Cincinnati 91
• Rifle balls of future 84
• Silk, artificial 84
• Soda lakes, Wyoming's 90
• Starling, three specimens of* 89
• Steamers, new American ocean 81
• Strawberries vs. gout 83
• Strikers to remember 91
• Subways of great city 86
• Sugar, milk, to make 84
• Tack, a, causes a fire 92
• Tent canvas, waterproofing (6177) 93
• Tool sharpener* 84
• Torpedo, Whitehead, engine 91
• Trees, spraying solution for 91
• Tunnel, the Ivanhoe 90
• Typhoid fever, bathing and 87
• Wages, Italian 87
• Waste of coal mines 82

Table of Contents of Scientific American Supplement No. 971.

For the Week Ending August 11, 1894.

Price 10 cents. For sale by all newsdealers.

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I. AERONAUTICS.-Aerodynamics.-By S. D. MOTT, Mem. Am. Inst. Elec. Engrs.-An examination of the mechanism of a bird's flight.-Its a lesson for man in his efforts at artificial flight.-A suggestion for a flying machine.-3 illustrations 15518

II BOTANY.- -Cacao (Theobroma cacao) in the Sierra Nevada, Colombia. - A critical British consular report on this subject. 15523

Types of Floral Structure.-By the Rev. ALEX. S. WILSON, M.A B.Sc.-A systematic examination of flower structures and of the connection with seed types.-2 Illustrations 15525

III. CIVIL ENGINEERING.-Roadways and Street Pavements.-By WILLIAM L. DICKINSON.-The various typical constructions of roads and pavements.-A plea for improved roads 15517

IV. COSMOLOGY. - Natures Protest against Change. - By Vaughan Cornish, M.Sc.-The organic and inorganic worlds and their processes contrasted. -The future of the world 15519

V. CYCLING.-A One-Legged Bicylist.-A curiosity in cycling.-1 illustration 15512

VI. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.-How to lee Cakes.- An excellent article on the making of ornamental cakes.-5 illustrations 15521

VII. HORTICULTURE.-Grevillea Banksii.-An elegant flowering tree or greenhouse shrub in the Cambridge Botanical Gardens.-1 illustration 15523

VIII. METEOROLOGY.-Rain Making.-By FERNANDO SANFORD - First installment of a lecture by the Professor of Physics of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, treating this subject scientifically 15525 Vesuvius in Eruption. The recent eruption of Vesuvius. described by a correspondent of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.-3 illustrations 15522

IX. MISCELLANEOUS.-Destruction by Fire of the Great Buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago.-Interesting views, with a description of the conflagration in Jackson Park, Chicago.-2 illustrations 15512

X. ORDNANCE.-An Armored Disappearing Turret Operated by Hand Power.-A counterpoised turret, worked by hand power, for Protecting guns in action.-1 illustration 15519

XI. PHARMACY.-Fruit Juice and Sirups.-The manufacture of different syrups, with numerous formulas 15516

XII. PHYSICS.-Study of Fluid Motion employing Colored Bands. By Prof. OSBORNE REYNOLDS.-A beautiful system of studying vortex motion and similar phenomena experimentally 15520

POMOLOGY.-Analysis of Fresh Figs.-Chemical analysis of California ties, to determine the proper fertilizer therefor 15524

XIV. PSYCHOLOGY.-The Mechanism of Thought.-Investigation of the mechanism of mental processes. 15512

XV. TECHNOLOGY.-Artificial Illumination.-By WILLIAM PAUL GERHARD. The present aspect of gas and its probable future in the world 15516 Crystallization in Motion. A new system of graining sugar in vacuum pans by stirring.-2 illustrations 15515 Linseed OIL-Abstract from a speech by Senator M. S. Quay.-The uses of this oil 15514

The Manufacture of White Sugar Direct from Cane Juice.-By Mr. L. F. Hauptman. A practical paper on the direct production of sugar 15515 Wool and its Manufacture.- A. popular resume of the history of wool and its present treatment 15512

Scientific American: A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures, Vol. LXXI, No. 6, New York, 11 August 1894. Paginated 81 to 94