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Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881

The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, havinge launched its first publication in 1845. It has been a mainstay of popular science with in depth articles across a broad spectrum of scientific fields. In this supplement are short articles ranging through such topics as Seyfferth's Pyrometer, Organic Matter in Sea-Water, On the Composition of Elephants' Milk, and Economy of the Electric Light.
- Summary by Larry Wilson (5 hr 18 min)

Chapters

Alcohol in Nature--Its Presence in the Earth, Water, and Atmosphere

6:53

Detection of Alcohol in Transparent Soaps

2:25

On the Calorific Power of Fuel, and on Thompson's Calorimeter

25:18

Explosion as an Unknown Fire Hazard

20:40

Carbon.--Symbol C.--Combining Weight 12

13:23

Seyfferth's Pyrometer

7:50

Manufacturers' Soaps and Their Production

11:28

The Preparation of Perfume Pomades

2:44

Organic Matter in Sea-Water / Bacteria Life

6:09

On the Composition of Elephants' Milk

12:45

The Chemical Composition of Rice, Maize, and Barley

7:36

Petroleum Oils / Composition of the Petroleum of the Caucasus

17:36

Notes on Cananga Oil or Ilang-Ilang Oil

13:33

Chian Turpentine

5:58

On the Change of Volume Which Accompanies the Galvanic Deposition of a Metal

7:11

Analyses of Rice Soils from Burmah

5:43

Dry Air Refrigerating Machine

7:07

Thomas's Improved Steam Wheel

4:02

The American Society of Civil Engineers, Address of the President

19:00

Delicate Scientific Instruments

26:49

The Future Development of Electrical Appliances

9:35

Rate of Production of Heat, Calculated in the Shape of Horse-Power

14:53

Researches on the Radiant Matter of Crookes and the Mechanical Theory of Electr…

4:33

Economy of the Electric Light

9:52

On the Space Protected by a Lightning-Conductor

10:27

Photo-Electricity of Fluor-Spar Crystals / The Aurora Borealis and Telegraph Ca…

7:29

The Photographic Image: What It Is

12:47

Gelatine Transparencies for the Lantern

9:34

An Integrating Machine

8:40

Upon a Modification of Wheatstone's Microphone and Its Applicability to Radioph…

6:25