Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having 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 Torpedo Ships, The Gas Engine, Capstan Navigation on the Volga, Astronomical Photography, and Sanitary Cooking. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Combined MP3 track duration: 3:39:49

Catalogue topics

• electricity
• cooking
• yarn
• canadian pacific railway
• sanitation
• volga
• scientific research
• gas engine

Track guide

1. 01 - Blaauw Krantz Viaduct in Cape Colony — 6:48
2. 02 - Torpedo Ships / A Plumbing Test — 3:35
3. 03 - The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 1 — 18:21
4. 04 - The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 2 — 16:27
5. 05 - Rapid Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway by E.T. Abbott — 14:15
6. 06 - The Osgood Mammoth Excavator / The Osgood Excavator — 7:22
7. 07 - Capstan Navigation on the Volga — 8:11
8. 08 - Steamboat Equipment of War Vessels — 11:55
9. 09 - Improved Steam Trap — 4:41
10. 10 - Photometrical Standards / Bleaching or Dyeing-Yarns and Goods in Vacuo — 5:11
11. 11 - On the Moulding of Porcelain by Charles Lauth — 14:14
12. 12 - Photo-Tricycle Apparatus / A Photo Printing Light / A New Actinometer — 6:14
13. 13 - Astronomical Photography — 10:04
14. 14 - Electricity as a Preventive of Scale in Boilers / Alphabet Designed by Godfrey Sykes — 4:07
15. 15 - Brief Sanitary Matters in Connection with Isolated Country Houses by E.W. Bowditch, C.E. — 15:39
16. 16 - Sanitary Cooking by Virginia L. Oppenheimer, M.D., Seymour, Ind. / Time Required to Digest Different Foods — 21:00
17. 17 - The Organization and Plan of The United States Geological Survey by J.W. Powell, Part 1 — 16:08
18. 18 - The Organization and Plan of The United States Geological Survey by J.W. Powell. Part 2 — 14:14
19. 19 - The Sunflowers by Charles Wolley-Dod / A Quick Filter — 15:09
20. 20 - Lye's Fuchsias — 6:13

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