Produced by J. Paolucci, D. Kretz, J. Sutherland, and Distributed Proofreaders [Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 417 NEW YORK, DECEMBER 29, 1883 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVI, No. 417. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Machine for Making Electric Light Carbons.--2 figures The Earliest Gas Engine The Moving of Large Masses.--With engravings of the removal of a belfry at Cresentino in 1776, and of the winged bulls from Nineveh to Mosul in 1854 Science and Engineering.--The relation they bear to one another. By WALTER R. BROWNE Hydraulic Plate Press.--With engraving Fast Printing Press for Engravings.--With engraving French Cannon Apparatus for Heating by Gas.--5 figures Improved Gas Burner for Singeing Machines.--1 figure II. TECHNOLOGY.--China Grass, or Rhea.--Different processes and apparatus used in preparing the fiber for commerce III. ARCHITECTURE.--Woodlands, Stoke Pogis, Bucks.--With engraving. IV. ELECTRICITY, LIGHT, ETC.--Volta Electric Induction as Demonstrated by Experiment.--Paper read by WILLOUGHBY SMITH before the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians.--Numerous figures On Telpherage.--The Transmission of vehicles by electricity to a distance.--By Prof. FLEEMING JENKIN New Electric Battery Lights The Siemens Electric Railway at Zankeroda Mines.--3 figures Silas' Chronophore.--3 figures V. NATURAL HISTORY.--A New Enemy of the Bee Crystallization of Honey An Extensive Sheep Range VI. HORTICULTURE, ETC.--The Zelkowas.--With full description of the tree, manner of identification, etc., and several engravings showing the tree as a whole, and the leaves, fruit, and flowers in detail VII. MEDICINE, HYGIENE, ETC.-The Disinfection of the Atmosphere. --Extract from a lecture by Dr. R.J. LEE, delivered at the Parkes Museum of Hygiene. London A New Method of Staining Bacillus Tuberculosis Cure for Hemorrhoids * * * * * VOLTA-ELECTRIC INDUCTION. [Footnote: A paper read at the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians on the 8th November, 1883] By WILLOUGHBY SMITH.