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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1877
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Home > Victorian Science & Invention > Inventions > Science & Invention Roundups: The Gatherer
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- January
- Trees in Towns • Kitchen-Gardens on Board Ship • Searching for Wealth in Arctic Wilds • Pleasant Evenings for Working Lads • Making Paper from Bamboo Stems • Gigantic Poultry [Ostrich-breeding] • How to Measure Sound • Breathing by Machinery • Instantaneous Fire-Lighters
- February
- The Neglected South Pole • The Painted Rocks of Arizona • Domestic Account-Keeping • A Bold Agricultural Experiment • What Station Is This? • Our Diet • Sprinkling Salt on Ice and Snow • Coloured Lights for Dark Nights • Water, Pure and Soft • Interesting to the Ladies • Welcome News for Housekeepers • Flowers for the Sick Poor • A Weird-Looking Plant [Giant Cactus] • Something About Servia • Indelible Writing for Bank Cheques
- March
- For the Sake of the Poor Hospital Patients • How to Make a Model Village • Education in the Metropolis • Sleep for the Sleepless • Electric Fire-Alarms and Frost-Alarms • Orchards and Market-Gardens • A Talking Machine • Sunken Rocks on the High Seas • The Growth of the Earth • By Greenwich Time • Lighting Up Railway Carriages • A New Remedy for Neuralgia
- April
- Accommodating Wall-Papers • A New Cotton Plant • The End of Smoke • A Geographical Puzzle Solved • What Becomes of the Pins? • Fire-Proof Store-Houses in Japan • Decrease in Emigration • Notes on Domestic Filters • A Mechanical Bat • Poisonous Dyes • Cleopatra's Needle • Pleasant Light for Weak Eyes • A Distance Calculator for Battle-Fields
- May
- Transformation Window-Blinds • A Simple Fire-Escape • Planting a Colony in Polar Wilds • No More Rust • A Grand Cabman's Shelter • Steam-Engines on Roads
- June
- The Luxury of Cold Water • Ozone in the Breeze • An Immense Snake [Anaconda at the Zoo] • Conversing by Telegraph • The first Book Printed in England • Fresh Water Under the Sea • Ships Built of Steel
- July
- The Montsouris Reservoir [in Paris] • Warned of Coming Storms • The Artificial Light of the Future • Taverns of Temperance • A Key to the Chess-Board • St. Kilda and the St. Kildans • Here Milton Lived • Dairy-Farming at Home and Abroad • Middle Class Hospitals •
- August
- Churchyard Gardens • Miniature Earthquakes in Farmers' Fields [dynamite] • Living in Paper Houses • Our Sisters in India • Common Sense and High Heels • Small Birds in Parliament • Living Without Food • Cheap Decoration for Dwelling-Houses • Shocks from Electric Eels • The Ways of Ants • How to Make a Hole in One's Hand • Struck by Lightning • The Cool Green Shade
- September
- A Pleasant Occupation for Ladies [china painting] • Helping Poor Boys to Help Themselves • The Paris Exhibition of 1878 • The Effect of Light Upon Diamonds • The Ironclads of Europe • Death to the Colorado Beetle! • New Post Office Orders • Nineteenth-Century Slavery in England • Solitary Chess
- October
- The Story of the Alps • From a Watery Grave • Police Work in 1876 • "Suddenly Disappeared" • A Rain-Tree • Insuring Workmen's Tools • The Nurse's Calling • In Hot Water • Our Soldiers and Sailors • Meteoric Iron in Church Steeples • The Sea for a Servant • The Cost of Damp Feet
- November
- Profitable Philanthropy • Photographing a Sore Throat • Farming in Worms • Electrical Test for the Safety of Bridges • A School of Dressmaking • To Builders and Others • A Calculating Box • In Local Museums
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