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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 299
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 1881
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XII, No. 299.
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. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--On the Progress and development
of the Marine Engine.--Marine engines.--The marine
boiler.--Steel boilers.--Corrosion of boilers.--How the marine
engine may be improved.--Consumption of fuel.--Evaporative
efficiency of marine locomotive boilers.--Screw propellers
Steam Ferry Boats of the Port of Marseilles.--2 figures.--
Transverse and longitudinal sections
Opening of a New English Dock. 1 figure
Improved Grain Elevator. 1 figure
Improved Dredger. 1 figure.--Single bucket dipper dredger
Railway Alarm Whistle
Furnace for the Manufacture of Sulphide of Carbon. 1 figure
Brouardel's Dry Inscribing Manometer. 1 figure.--Gas indication
of manometer
Centrifugal Apparatus for Casting Metals.
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