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Description:
This is Scientific American Supplement #254, November 13, 1880.
Fascinating articles, beautifully illustrated with detailed drawings, diagrams, and engravings.
Topics include: cover article, illust. about Improved Air Refrigerating Machine; American Railways; An Elevated Road in 1836; The Library of Congress; Goethe's Theory of Colors; Musical Pitch; Reservoid Blowpipe; Redier's Barometric Balance; Some scientific results obtained in the Eighteenth Century; Apparatus for measuring the laws of motion of projectiles (w/illust); The Rochester Astronomical Observatory (w/illust); Temperature of the soil in winter; Thunderstorms (long detailed article by a Prof. Tait); Marie Joseph Jacquard; Denis Papin (article w/illust of bronze statue recently erected at Blois, France); Ornamentation of Ancient American Pottery; Destruction of the pyramids; Burmese oil wells; Measles; Injury of the Cornea by a foreign body; applications of artificial cold in industrial chemistry; The animal life of the deep sea;
and many articles or short stories about various other topics. Also - Correspondence, Notes and Queries, Patents, great period advertisements.
Size 12"x17". Pages 4039-4054.
Condition is very good, some minor discoloration/coffee stains on last page.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 119220 |
| Condition:
See item description |
Year:
c.1900
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