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Journal of the Franklin Institute, No. 717, September 1885. —J. Sartain, on the ancient art of painting in encaustic.—Dr. P. H. Van der Weyde, on the new system of telegraphy to and from moving trains. This paper describes Phelps's method of communicating by induction.—A. E. Outerbridge, a lecture on matter.—S. W. Holman, friction of leather belts on iron pulleys; an experimental study of the slip, and coefficients of sliding friction.—A. S. Greene, on the jacketing of working cylinders of steam-engines.—Otto Luthy, on Florida sugar.— Pedro G. Salom, on the metallurgy of steel; an essay on Bessemer and other modern processes.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 33, 309–310 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033309a0
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