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Description:
This is Scientific American Supplement #348, September 2, 1882.
Fascinating articles, beautifully illustrated with detailed drawings, diagrams, and engravings.
Topics include (asterisk indicates one or more illustrations):
Cover article about A New Double Twin-Screw Ferry Steamer - Bebington-Mersey Ferries (*)
Berlier's Pneumatic Sewage System (*)
Towers (* of Alternative Design for the Record Tower by G.E. Street)
The Gastornis Edwardsii (fossil) (* of restoration of entire fossil, and detail of a tibia)
On the Protection of Buildings from Lightning (*)
New Experiments with the Electric Arc
Wire Ropes
The Water-Softening Process
The Chemical Industries of Italy
Prof. Haeckel in Ceylon and India
Some Possible Sources of Error in Computing the Age of Fossils
Nut-Bearing Trees
Hothouse Melons and Cucumbers (*)
How to Tell the Distance of the Sun - the Transit of Venus, Dec. 6, 1882 - (a fairly detailed article with formulas, diagram, etc.)
and many articles or short stories about various other topics. Also - Correspondence, Notes and Queries, Patents, great period advertisements.
Size 12"x17". Pages 5543-5558.
Condition is very good, pages separating somewhat along fold line, light discoloration.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 120900 |
| Condition:
See item description |
Year:
c.1900
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