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This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 105 pages of information about Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887.

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THE HAVRE MARITIME EXHIBITION.	1
OUR COAST DEFENSES.	3
THE STEAMSHIP GREAT EASTERN.	5
THE NEW GERMAN CORVETTE GREIF.	8
TWIN SCREW TORPEDO BOAT.	9
SOME RECENT HIGH-SPEED TWIN SCREWS.	10
RECENT ADVANCES IN SEWING MACHINERY.	20
THE NEW KRUPP GUNS.	36
COLORS OF THIN PLATES.	39
BELT JOINTS.	42
INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF DENIS PAPIN.	44
DECORATION.	45
PRINCIPLES OF ORNAMENT.	46
POSITION AND SCOPE OF ORNAMENTAL OR DECORATIVE ART.	46
RELATION BETWEEN NATURE AND ORNAMENTAL ART.	49
HISTORIC ORNAMENT.	50
THE STYLES.	51
I. ANCIENT OR CLASSIC ART.	52
II. MEDIAEVAL ART.	54
III. MODERN ART.	55
THE MONTAUD ACCUMULATOR.	57
ELECTRIC REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS.	62
A CLINICAL LESSON AT “LA SALPETRIERE.”	63
TO FIND THE DAY OF THE WEEK FOR ANY GIVEN DATE.	64
PRECIOUS STONES OF THE UNITED STATES.	65
THE BRAZIL NUT.	67
THE ACTION OF THE MAGNET IN HYPNOSIS.	68
THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT.	69
PATENTS.	69
THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN	69

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