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  3. SCIENCE, ART, AND MANUFACTURES. LONGITUDE BY CHRONOMETER AT SUNRISE OR SUNSET.—WASTON'S METHOD.

    Assuredly, the more opportunities seamen have for obtaining their position at sea the better—the less likely they are to suffer from the effects of currents, weather, and their evil consequences. There has been little novelty of this ...

    Article : 480 words
  4. A NEW ELECTRICAL MACHINE.

    When the mercury passes through the pores of the wood in the apparatus for illustrating atmospheric pressure, known as the metallic shower apparatus—that is, when the mercury is placed in a brass funnel, with a wood diaphragm, whence ...

    Article : 204 words
  5. HORSE-CHEBNUT BISCUITS.

    M. Payen submitted for M. Flandin, at a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1st—a specimen of horse [?], freed from all the bitterness by carbonate of soda, and very white; 2nd—bread made with one part of ...

    Article : 183 words
  6. USES OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

    One of the most singular uses to which the Electric Telegraph has turned was lately described before the British Association. It is that of giving particulars of the weather in all parts of the empire, and making the metropolis, or ...

    Article : 310 words
  7. BANVARD'S GEOGRAPHICAL PANORAMA OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND MISSOURI RIVERS.

    This curious exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly, is a moving transparent picture, which takes some two hours to pass before the spectator. The exhibitor does not profess to display it as a work of art; and his modes[?]y is ...

    Article : 793 words
  8. SHIP BUILDING.

    A gentleman in Laanceston, who has devoted some attention to the science of boat building, has had a small vessel constructed after a model of his own The novelty of the design is a sufficient guarantee for its originality. It ...

    Article : 164 words
  9. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

    It is not perhaps generally known, that if a ray of light, of a violet colour, enter through a window in the neighbourhood of a telegraphic needle magnetism is immediately imparted. We understand that the scientific world is ...

    Article : 158 words
  10. NEW METHOD OF CLARIFYING SUGAR.

    The following extract of a recent letter from England shows that the subject is under active discussion there, and that great results are anticipated from the experiments pursued. Mr Fairrie, the sugar refiner, mentioned as ...

    Article : 730 words
  11. THE "FIRE-KING'S" SECRET.

    Tanacre, a Neopotitan physician, states that the human body can be rendered insensible to fire by the following embrocation being applied:—One ounce and a half of a'um, dissolved in four ounces ...

    Article : 59 words
  12. WOODEN GUNPOWDER.

    From sundry recent experiments, the fact is established, that fine sawdust, or rasped wood, sleeped in a mixture of concentrated sulphuric and nitric acids, and afterwards washed and dried, will explode similar to common ...

    Article : 61 words
  13. TELESCOPE WALKING-STICKS.

    A curious importation has recently taken place from the Continent, consisting of a parcel of sticks, being, to all appearance, and in fact, walking-sticks, but containing a removable top, which, on being drawn out, discovered a ...

    Article : 63 words
  14. NOVEL INVENTION.

    Harris, the late superintendent of the city water-works, has invented an article which promises to be of much service to the police in conveying the very drunk and very riotous to the watch-house. It consists of a sort of canvas ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. SPLITTING A BANK NOTE.

    The Governors and Directors of the Bank of England having been informed of the extraodinary ingenuity of Mr Baldwin, and that he was able not only to split a newspaper, but a bank-note, sent for him in order to test his skill. ...

    Article : 173 words
  16. THE EQIVEHANT ON SELF-BALANCING CANDLESTICK.

    This is a most ingenious contrivance, by which all annoyance arising from the dropping of snuffers, grease, &c., is entirely prevented. The hand (which forms the principal feature in the design) may also be affixed to any vessel ...

    Article : 97 words
  17. HYDRAULIC CRANE.

    A new hydraulie crane was tested at Glasgow in January last. The crane was loaded to the extent of eleven tons, and the moment the water was turned on, this enormous load was raised with perfect ease, then lowered and wheeled ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. VALUABLE AUSTRALIAN WOODS.

    In the Cape of Good Hope Shipping Gazette, we find the following notice of a valuable species of Australian wood:—A gentleman, recently from England, has brought with him a piece ...

    Article : 186 words
  19. A PAR CHUTE FOR COALPITS.

    To des[?]end into mines and coalpits, and to as[?]end by means of vertical ladders, are operations so fatiguing, that the pitmen prefer, in spite of the regulations which forbid it, to expose their lives to the risk of the strength of a rope, ...

    Article : 301 words
  20. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS.

    An interesting and successful experiment on a small sca[?]e has been made at Folkenstone, by the sinking of a submarine telegraphic wire, preparatory to the sinking over the Straits of Dover a properly insulated telegraph. A steamer ...

    Article : 170 words
  21. A NOVEL STEAM ENGINE.

    It will be remembered by our readers that, at the meeting of the British Association at Cambridge, considerable sensation was produced by M. Boutigny, who brought before the meeting a series of experiments on what he calls the ...

    Article : 385 words
  22. PRESERVED POTATOES.

    A novel importation has recently taken place, by a vessel arrived from Gothenburg, consisting of some preserved potatoes. Potatoes are free of duty when in a raw state, and may, for a definite period, be brought without reference to ...

    Article : 265 words
  23. THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.

    A second public experimental exhibition of the New Electric light has been made over the entrance to the National Gallery and the Royal Academy. There was a large attendance of scientific gentlemen and noblemen. Upon the ...

    Article : 213 words
  24. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The New York Mirror states that a discovery has been made, of a method of producing butter instantly, by forcing air through cream. In the formation of a single locomotive steam-engine ...

    Article : 254 words
  25. AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND FARMING. THE FOOD OF THE PEOPLE.

    We have much pleasure in transferring to our columns, from the (Sw[?]nsea) Cambrian, the following sensible letter. addressed by "An Old Farmer" to the Editor of that paper on the subject of the Peope's Food: — ...

    Article : 1,119 words
  26. HINTS FOR FORMING RESERVOIRS FOR WATER.

    There is so much good sense and applicability in the following observations, borrowed from a South African contemporary, that we have much pleasure in transferring them to our columns:— ...

    Article : 410 words
  27. DRIED FIGS.

    The following correspondence on the best method of drying figs appeared lately in the Sydney Morning Herald:—Sir —All that is required for drying figs is plenty of sun; the fruit should be placed on hurdles raised a little way from the ground; the ...

    Article : 256 words
  28. MILLET.

    We have been informed (says a New South Wales contemporary) on good authority, that no plant is better suited for green food than millet, as well from the amount of produce as that it extends into a season of the year when other ...

    Article : 69 words
  29. TRELLISES.

    Mr Ballender Ker has suggested the use of rough frames, with movable sashes, to cover trellises in gardens. This application promises to be the beginning of a new era in English gardening. Last year, after the fruit was gathered ...

    Article : 127 words
  30. FOSSIL MANURE

    The artificial manure I used was composed of 2 cwt. of dissolved coprolites, in half their weight of sulphuric acid, and seven put-loads of dung mixed with ashes. Now, I used the word "coprolites." "What (says some farmer), ...

    Article : 546 words
  31. THE POTATO.

    We extract from the Cape Mail the following particulars of a soil and climate adapted to the potato:—The following remarkable instance, which has occurred in this neighbourhood, of the powers of reproduction in the above valuable ...

    Article : 237 words
  32. SMALL-POX IN SHEEP.

    As small-pox in sheep has recently become a subject to which the flockmaster has been under the necessity of paying a forced attention, the following information may not prove uninteresting. In an unpublished translation of ...

    Article : 257 words
  33. BREEDING OF FARM HORSES.

    One precaution in breeding I would strongly recommend, which is, never knowingly to breed animals of vicious dispositions. I would be well it the following rules were observed, viz, never to breed from an old infirm animal, but ...

    Article : 547 words
  34. HOW TO ENLARGE VEGETABLES.

    A vast increase of food may be obtained by managing judiciously, and systematically carrying out for a time the principles of increase. Take, for instance, a pea. Plant it in very rich ground; allow it to bear, the first year, say half ...

    Article : 139 words
  35. IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT.

    The Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company lately made the third of a series of experiments, with a view of ascertaining the most convenient and expeditious mode of applying water or sewage to the ground. The experiment was ...

    Article : 370 words
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