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Description:
This is Scientific American, February 14, 1885. Fascinating articles, beautifully illustrated with detailed drawings, diagrams, and engravings.
Topics include: American Dredgers working on the Panama Canal; Steam Launches and Cutters; Street Pavements; The Marot Tunnel (includes detailed diagrams and illustrations); The Channel Tunnel; Duchamp's Single Rail Railway; Completion of the Washington Monument; The Wallace Statue, Aberdeen; Roofing-Tiles; Fireproof Fixing Blocks; Revolving Calcining Furnaces; Home-made Drawing Tools (t-square, compass, etc.); The Milling of Ores - Stamps Versus Rolls; Euthanasia - The Painless Extinction of Life in the Lower Animals (detailed article with diagrams of gas chambers, table of anesthetic gases and their properties, recommended methods to use, etc.); Tanekaha Bark of New Zealand; The Kola Nut (from which Cocaine is made); Cultivation of Coca Plant in the U.S.;
and many articles or short stories about various other topics. Also - Correspondence, Notes and Queries, Patents, great period advertisements.
Size 12"x17".
Pages 7591-7606.
Condition good, but last page has a large tear, fold line weak, ragged, some pages detached, but not missing.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 118604 |
| Condition:
See item description |
Year:
c.1900
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