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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
SUPPLEMENT
NEW YORK, JUNE 2, 1888
Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXV., No. 648.
Scientific American, established 1845.
Scientific American, established 1845.
Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year.
Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.
Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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| I. ARCHITECTURE.—Evolution of the Modern Mill.—By C. J. H. Woodbury.—Continuation of this Sibley College lecture, treating of the practical details of mill structures. | 10346 |
| II. ASTRONOMY.—Changes in the Stellar Heavens.—By J. E. Gore, F.R.A.S.—Changes of color, brightness, and position in the fixed stars as attested to by the records of the ancient and modern astronomers. | 10355 |
| Distance and Constitution of the Sun.—Modern theories of the sun and difficulties in formulating a satisfactory explanation of all of its phenomena. | 10354 |
| III. BOTANY.—The Common Dandelion.—By Frederick Leroy Sargent.—The properties and life history of this common plant.—Its wonderful seed-distributing apparatus.—8 illustrations. | 10355 |
| IV. CHEMISTRY.—Poison of the Somalis extracted from the Wood of the Ouabaio.—A recently investigated plant principle. | 10358 |
| V. CIVIL ENGINEERING.—Test of a Wrought Iron Double Track Floor Beam.—By Alfred P. Boller.—A test pushed to actual rupture of a full-sized member of a bridge.—1 illustration. | 10344 |
| Timber and Some of its Diseases.—By H. Marshall Ward.—Part V. of this exhaustive treatise of the deterioration of one of the great structural materials.—1 illustration. | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |