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Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885

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Read by Teresa Pierce, Stacey Malcolm, Julie Anne Thompson and Michael Cooper · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Permeability of Sand Rock by Frederick H. Newell, M.E. (5:51)
The Grotto of Gargas (11:23)
Deep Shafts and Deep Mining (17:21)
Remarkable Wells and Caverns / Note on Cholera (10:16)
The Cabbage Butterfly and The Peacock Butterfly (6:16)
The Bhotan Cypress (7:06)
The Pitcher Plant / What Is a Plant? (7:32)
Camellias (10:44)
ArisÆma Fimbriatum (2:37)
Striking a Light (4:28)
Experiments in Memory (7:18)
Sinking of the Quievrechain Working Shaft (14:58)
On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 1 (13:58)
On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 2 (15:28)
On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 3 (22:06)
M. Meizel's Reciprocating Exhauster (3:51)
Automatic Siphon for Irrigation / Assay of Earthenware Glaze (7:00)
On the Electrical Furnace and the Reduction of the Oxides of Boron, Silicon, Aluminum, and Other Metals by Carbon (10:30)
The Cowles Electric Smelting Process (11:54)
Optical Telegraphy - Cryptography - Preservation of Telegrams (5:29)
Optical Telegraphy - Use of the Projector in Optical Telegraphy / Capt. Gaumet's Optical Telegraph (6:53)
Optical Telegraphy - Optical Signaling between Bodies of Troops / Optical Telegraphy by Luminous Balloons / Optical Telegraphy in the Marine (4:38)
Optical Telegraphy - A New Style of Submarine Telegraph (8:50)
A New Circuit Cutter (3:53)
New Micro-Telephonic Apparatus (4:49)
Messrs. Kapp and Crompton's Measuring Instruments (5:38)
The Chemical Action of Light (4:32)
Eutexia, by Thomas Turner, Assoc. R.S.M., F.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry, Mason College (16:24)
Chinoline / Method for Rapid Estimation of Urea (6:22)