Scientific American Supplement Index

 

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT

Vol. XXIII, NO. 598

NEW YORK, JUNE 18, 1887

 

THE HAVRE MARITIME EXHIBITION.

OUR COAST DEFENSES.

THE STEAMSHIP GREAT EASTERN.

THE NEW GERMAN CORVETTE GREIF.

TWIN SCREW TORPEDO BOAT.

SOME RECENT HIGH-SPEED TWIN SCREWS.

RECENT ADVANCES IN SEWING MACHINERY.

 

Power machines and treadle machines were exhibited by Messrs. Willcox & Gibbs, Messrs. Wheeler & Wilson, and the Singer Manufacturing Company. The motive power was provided by an electrical motor, supplied by Mr. Moritz Immish. The Howe Machine Company exhibited a model of the first machine made by Elias Howe, and also one of the most recent Howe machines. Mr. Newton Wilson showed a model of the Saint sewing machines, constructed from Thomas Saint's patent specification, 1790, and Mr. Carver showed the Standard sewing machine.

 

THE NEW KRUPP GUNS.

COLORS OF THIN PLATES.

BELT JOINTS.

INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF DENIS PAPIN.

DECORATION, THE STUDY OF ORNAMENTS.

THE MONTAUD ACCUMULATOR.

ELECTRIC REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS.

A CLINICAL LESSON AT "LA SALPETRIERE."

TO FIND THE DAY OF THE WEEK FOR ANY GIVEN DATE.

PRECIOUS STONES OF THE UNITED STATES.

THE BRAZIL NUT.

THE ACTION OF THE MAGNET IN HYPNOSIS.

ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS EDITION.