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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1878

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December (1877)
England's "Sweet Tooth" • Lifting Ships Out of Water • Rising with the Lark • A Self-Acting Bucket • A Water Filter and Cooler • A Puzzle Clock • A Snug Journey by Rail [Pullman Cars]

January
An Improved Stove • A Substitute for Silk • A Novel Night-Light • A New Heat-Generator • Saftey at Sea • The Rolling Bridge of St. Malo

February
Self-Watering Flower Pots • The Little Moons of Mars • Novel Application of the Screw-Press • The Earth's Population • Sea-water as a Beverage • Some Busy Workers Underground • Some Effects of Gaslight • A Vegetable Hercules • Rearing Chickens by Water • The New French Military Map • Safety at Sea • Electro-Plating Extraordinary

March
Liquid Air • A Novel Source of Heat • Felling Trees by Steam • Coal on the South Coast • Soaps and Soaps • The Magic Arrow: A Problem• Two Useful Articles in One • Iron Fleece • A Sunlight Stove • Signaling at Sea • The Washing of Coal-Smoke • A Steam Siphon Pump

April
Rubber-Clad Men-of-War • A New Use for Insulators • A Latch and a Catch • A Test for the Ignition of Oil • A Self-Adjusting Windmill • An Ornamental Trade • A Digging Machine • An Enchanted Metal [Gallium]

May
The Melo-Piano • Rafts for Saving Life • Continuous Brakes • Self-Acting Lamp-Lighters • A Rival to the Sea-Serpent • The Manufacture of Rubies • The Outdoor Business Girls of London • Sewing by Galvanic Battery • Medicated Baths • The Source and Use of Iron

June
The Block in the City Streets • A Sailing Car • Imitation Tortoise-Shell and Mother-of-Pearl • A Town on the Slide • Telegraphy by Sound •Hardened Glass • How the Phonograph Came to Be Invented • Our Fuel Supply

July
Balloon Photography • How to Produce an Antique Bronze • Prevention of Colliery Accidents • A Novel Vehicle • Home-Sickness, an Actual Disease • Type-Setting in Japan • New Lights for the Magic-Lantern • American Horses in England • The Defence of the Thames • The Marvels of the Microphone • An Economical Fashion • A Rough-and-Ready Microscope • Do Plants Dream?

August
An Alarm Sand-Glass • A Chapter of Railway Accidents • Restoring Old Writing and Cleaning Oil-Paintings • Where Do Our Sponges Come From? • Observing the Vocal Chords • Pots and Pans • Planting Fish • A One-Man Power • Japanese Bronzes • The Phoneidoscope • An Improved Cistern • A Suggestion on Behalf of Divers • Railway Passengers and the Guard

September
A Gun-Cotton Rocket • Epidemic Diseases • Flooding the Sahara • A Substitute for Corks • Sitting for Your Portrait • Heating a Town by Steam • New Guinea Plantations • Old Paint • Coal in China • The Latest Eruption of Hecla • Hallucination • Oatmeal

October
Photographs on Silk • Swimming for Girls • Effects of Gas Upon Cotton • Whaling • An International Exhibition at Melbourne • A New Use for the Salt River • Live-Preservers on Sea and Land • A Remedy for Mildew • The Great Chinese Encyclopedia • Street Mud • A Self-Acting Rifle Marker • French Government Aquariums • A Pillar-Box Indicator • Ormer Gathering

November
Poisonous Toys • The New Douro Bridge • Two New Musical Instruments • Ostrich-Farmers • A Submarine Boat • Testing the Atmosphere • A New Gum-Tree • Scottish Pearls • Grapes • Silk from Mussles • The Megaphone • Is There a Hole Through Mercury?

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