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

Genres: Non-fiction Life Sciences Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics Chemistry Science

Narrators:Larry Wilson, Stacey Malcolm, Verla Viera, BettyB, George Banfield, Julie Anne Thompson, bilwelvox, Elizabeth Mason, jenno, Beau Wood, Availle, Erica Brooks

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1. Blaauw Krantz Viaduct in Cape Colony
2. Torpedo Ships / A Plumbing Test
3. The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 1
4. The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 2
5. Rapid Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway by E.T. Abbott
6. The Osgood Mammoth Excavator / The Osgood Excavator
7. Capstan Navigation on the Volga
8. Steamboat Equipment of War Vessels
9. Improved Steam Trap
10. Photometrical Standards / Bleaching or Dyeing-Yarns and Goods in Vacuo
11. On the Moulding of Porcelain by Charles Lauth
12. Photo-Tricycle Apparatus / A Photo Printing Light / A New Actinometer
13. Astronomical Photography
14. Electricity as a Preventive of Scale in Boilers / Alphabet Designed by Godfrey Sykes
15. Brief Sanitary Matters in Connection with Isolated Country Houses by E.W. Bowditch, C.E.
16. Sanitary Cooking by Virginia L. Oppenheimer, M.D., Seymour, Ind. / Time Required to Digest Different Foods
17. The Organization and Plan of The United States Geological Survey by J.W. Powell, Part 1
18. The Organization and Plan of The United States Geological Survey by J.W. Powell. Part 2
19. The Sunflowers by Charles Wolley-Dod / A Quick Filter
20. Lye's Fuchsias

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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