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قراءة كتاب Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.

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Scientific  American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880
A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science,
Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.

Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.

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392 Vennor's winter predictions 389 Vessels, sunken, raising 386 Winter predictions, Vennor's 389 Zinc, to amalgamate (23) 395

image1 FIRST DEPARTMENT
image2 FOURTH OR FINISHING DEPARTMENT
image3 SECOND DEPARTMENT
image4 THE BUDGET ROOM
image5 THIRD DEPARTMENT
image6 THE ASSEMBLY ROOM

BUSINESS COLLEGES AND THEIR SYSTEMS--[See page 388.]


Scientific American

ESTABLISHED 1845.


MUNN & CO., Editors and Proprietors.


PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
NO. 37 PARK ROW, NEW YORK.


O. D. MUNN.

A. E. BEACH.


TERMS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

One copy, one year postage included $3 20
One copy, six months, postage included 1 60

Clubs.—One extra copy of The Scientific American will be supplied gratis for every club of five subscribers at $3.20 each: additional copies at same proportionate rate. Postage prepaid.

Remit by postal order. Address

MUNN & CO., 37 Park Row, New York.

To Advertisers—The regular circulation of the Scientific American is now Fifty Thousand Copies weekly. For 1880 the publishers anticipate a still larger circulation.

The Scientific American Supplement

Is a distinct paper from the Scientific American. THE SUPPLEMENT is issued weekly. Every number contains 16 octavo pages, uniform in size with Scientific American. Terms of subscription for Supplement, $5.00 a year, postage paid, to subscribers. Single copies, 10 cents. Sold by all news dealers throughout the country.

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The safest way to remit is by draft, postal order, or registered letter.

Address MUNN & CO., 37 Park Row, N. Y.

Scientific American Export Edition.

The Scientific American Export Edition is a large and splendid periodical, issued once a month. Each number contains about one hundred large quarto pages, profusely illustrated, embracing (1.) Most of the plates and pages of the four preceding weekly issues of the Scientific American, with its splendid engravings and valuable information; (2.) Commercial, trade, and manufacturing announcements of leading houses. Terms for Export Edition, $5.00 a year, sent prepaid to any part of the world. Single copies 50 cents. Manufacturers and others who desire to secure foreign trade may have large, and handsomely displayed announcements published in this edition at a very moderate cost.

The Scientific American Export Edition has a large guaranteed circulation in all commercial places throughout the world. Address MUNN & CO., 37 Park Row, New York.


NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1880.


TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT

NO. 259.

For the Week ending December 18, 1880.

Price 10 cents. For sale by all newsdealers.

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I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.—Frager's Water Meter. 3 figures.—Vertical section, horizontal section, and plan 4119
Transmission of Power to a Distance.—Wire ropes—Compressed air—Water pressure.—Electricity 4120
The Livadia at Sea 4120
The Herreshoff Launch 4121
New Steering Gear. 2 figures.—Steam steering gear for Herreshoff launch 4121
     
II. TECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY.—Glucose 4126
American Manufacture of Corn Glucose 4126
The Conversions—Starch—Dextrine.—Complete glucose 4126
Depreciation of a Glucose

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