Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 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. 508, September 26, 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 Camellias, Experiments in Memory, The Chemical Action of Light, and longer articles on the Gas Engine, and Optical Telegraphy. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 4:18:05

Catalogue topics

• mining
• caverns
• camellias
• butterflies
• science history
• scientific research
• gas engine
• grotto of gargas

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Permeability of Sand Rock by Frederick H. Newell, M.E. — 5:51
2. 02 - The Grotto of Gargas — 11:23
3. 03 - Deep Shafts and Deep Mining — 17:21
4. 04 - Remarkable Wells and Caverns / Note on Cholera — 10:16
5. 05 - The Cabbage Butterfly and The Peacock Butterfly — 6:16
6. 06 - The Bhotan Cypress — 7:06
7. 07 - The Pitcher Plant / What Is a Plant? — 7:32
8. 08 - Camellias — 10:44
9. 09 - ArisÆma Fimbriatum — 2:37
10. 10 - Striking a Light — 4:28
11. 11 - Experiments in Memory — 7:18
12. 12 - Sinking of the Quievrechain Working Shaft — 14:58
13. 13 - On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 1 — 13:58
14. 14 - On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 2 — 15:28
15. 15 - On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine by Denny Lane, of Cork, Part 3 — 22:06
16. 16 - M. Meizel's Reciprocating Exhauster — 3:52
17. 17 - Automatic Siphon for Irrigation / Assay of Earthenware Glaze — 7:00
18. 18 - On the Electrical Furnace and the Reduction of the Oxides of Boron, Silicon, Aluminum, and Other Metals by Carbon — 10:30
19. 19 - The Cowles Electric Smelting Process — 11:54
20. 20 - Optical Telegraphy - Cryptography - Preservation of Telegrams — 5:29
21. 21 - Optical Telegraphy - Use of the Projector in Optical Telegraphy / Capt. Gaumet's Optical Telegraph — 6:53
22. 22 - Optical Telegraphy - Optical Signaling between Bodies of Troops / Optical Telegraphy by Luminous Balloons / Optical Telegraphy in the Marine — 4:38
23. 23 - Optical Telegraphy - A New Style of Submarine Telegraph — 8:50
24. 24 - A New Circuit Cutter — 3:53

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