Y, DECEMBER 18, 1880.

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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 Factory 4126
The Fire Risks of Glucose Factories and Manufactures 4126
Glucose Factory Fires and Ignitions 4127
The Hirsh Process. By Adolf H. Hirsh--Improvement in
the manufacture of sugar from Corn 4127
Time in the Formation of salts. By M. Berthelot 4127
An Old Can of Preserved Meat By G. W. Wigner 4127
Chemistry for Amateurs. 6 figures.--Reaction between nitric
acid and iron.--Experiment with Pharaoh's serpents.--Formation
of crystals of iodide of cyanogen--Experiment with ammoniacal
amalgam.--Pyrophorus burning in contact with the air.--Gold leaf
suspended over mercury 4128
Carbonic Acid in the Atmosphere. 2 figures 4129
On Potash Fulling Soaps By W. J. Menzies 4129
Photography of the Invisible 4134

III. ELECTRICITY. LIGHT, HEAT, ETC.--Exhibition of Gas and
Electric Light Apparatus, Glasgow 4125
Electric Light in the German Navy. 1 illustration. Armored
Frigates Friedrich Karl and Sachsen.--Dispatch Boat Grille, and
Torpedo Boat illuminated by Electric Light