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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 470


NEW YORK, JANUARY 3, 1885
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIX, No. 470.
Scientific American established 1845
Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year.
Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. METALLURGY, CHEMISTRY, ETC.--The Elasticity of Metals.
The Liquefaction of the Elementary Gases.--By JULES JAMIN.
Examination of Fats.
Notes on Nitrification.--By R. WARINGTON.--Paper read before
the British Association at Montreal.
II. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Flow of Water through
Hose Pipes.
Iron Pile Planks in the Construction of Foundations under
Water.--3 engravings.
Sound Signals.--Extracts from a paper by A.B. JOHNSON.--Treating
of gongs, guns, rockets, bells, whistling buoys, bell
buoys, locomotive whistles, trumpets, the siren, and the use of
natural orifices.--2 engravings.
Trevithick's High Pressure Engine at Crewe.--2 engravings.
Planetary Wheel Trains.--By Prof. C.W. MACCORD.--With a
page and a half of illustrations.
Bridge over the River Indus, at Attock. Punjaub, Northern State
Railway, India.
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