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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1879

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December (1878)
Spherical Castors • Edison's Electric Light • Gas from Water • Explosive Dust • A Caution Respecting Perambulators • A Sheep Protector • The Sea-Mole • Binding Grain by Machinery •

January
Beacon Lights at Sea • A Steam-Carriage • Is Gas Injurious to Books? • A Measuring Stopper • The Poplar as a Lightning Conductor • A Microphone Stethoscope • Luminous Paint • A New Invalid Water-Bed • Liberian Coffee • A Railway Up Mount Vesuvius • Edison's Micro-Tasimeter • Extinguishing Chimney Fires • The Harmonic Engine • Solar Cooking

February
Steam as a Light Reflector • Greenland Exploration • Wooden Books on Woods • Phosphorescent Timepieces • Steam for Heating Purposes • Our Colony of Fiji • Electricity and the Camera • Frozen Vegetables • Coal at Lake Nyassa • Duplexing the Atlantic Cable •Everlasting Flowers • Refrigeration and Preservation • A New Drawing Pencil • Artificial Caoutchouc • Cleaning Filters • How to Preserve Eggs for a Twelvemonth • The Voice of the Earthquake • Water as a Motive Power • A New Anaesthetic • A Repeating Match • A New Garden Sprinkler • Telegraphic Shore-Lights for the Thames • Soap and Fever-Germs

March
An Improvement in Railway Lights • The Fattest Fish in the World • A Novelty – Steel Nails • Cow-Tree Milk • A Revolving Index • Tempered Glass • A Golden Meteorite • Blasting by Quicklime • A Railway to Timbuctoo • The Argan Tree • Silent Gas Engines • Salt as a Preservative of Wood • Gray's Finger Telephone • The Willow as a Febrifuge • Floating Soap • Detachable Decks • Platinised Iron • Electricity and Gardening • The Indicating Funnel • Making Paper Transparent • Agoraphobia • How Hearing is Affected by Air-Currents

April
Chinese Diamonds • Buttons Without Sewing • Recent Discoveries in Molecular Physics • Clerac's Electric Vote Recorder • Pate de Bois • Lake Nicaragua • A Useful Steam-Crane • A Substitute for Earthenware • A New Year for Old Fruit Cans • Electricity and the Loom • An Anti-Moth Paper • The Magic Mirror of Japan • The Telegraphic Pen • The Telectroscope • New Sugar and Tea • Gas at Sea • Chaulmoogra Oil • Drying Flowers in Sand • Reading and Eyesight • Machine-Made Toys

May
What Is the "Gramme" Machine? • Explosive Gelatine • A Time-Keeping Night-Lamp • A Paper Dome • A Steam Life-Boat • A Pigmy Microscope • Gower's Telephone • Horse-Chestnut Starch • Are Empty Houses Dangerous? • Self-Coloured Photographs • Floating Signal Lights • A Curious Stalactite • Banana Flour • A Mechanical Short-Hand Reporter • A Remarkable Strength-Testing Machine • Effect of Perfume of Flowers on Health • Insoluble Cement • The Praxinoscope • A New Screw Steering Apparatus • Passenger Flag Signals • Effects of Coloured Glass on Animal Life • Fire and Flood Tell-Tales • Wrapping Food in Paper • An Indestructible Writing Ink

June
A Novel Inclined Railway • The Albo-Carbon Light • A Cure for Hydrophobia • Life Preservation at Sea • Domesticated Buffaloes • Photography by Gas-Light • A New Railway Key • Restoring Faded Flowers • The Paraon Pentagraph • A Novel Envelope • The Heliograph • A Tell-Tale Letterbox • A Railway in Central Asia • An Electric Blowpipe • A Society of Housewives • Violet Powders • A Cure for Intemperance • A Novel Printing Press • A New Miner's Safety Lamp • Fire-Proof Ink • Steering by Steam • How to Make Court Plaister

July
A New Electric Marvel • A New Method of Raising Wrecks • Safe and Silent China Ware • A Buffer for Ships • Improved Ventilation • An Inter-Oceanic Canal • Edison's Electro-Chemical Telephone • An Automatic Siphon • A Whistling Tree • Safe Sea-Voyages • Indestructible Boot-Soles • Pure Air for London • Straw-Sheathed Pencils • A Sound-Reflector • Curing Smoky Gardens • Bleaching Diamonds • Colours from Cabbages • The Electric Eel and the Telephone

August
Ventilation Without Draughts • A Glass Mountain [in Yellowstone] • A New Remedy for Whooping Cloth • How Travellers May Secure Their Luggage • A Hedge-Cutting Machine • Improved Reflecting Telescopes • The Air-Jets of Niagara • Phosphorescent Powder • Ploughing by Electricity • Black Mildew • A New Stone-Planer • A Novel Mode of Staining Glass • A New Mineral • Planting Potatoes • A Molecular Mill-Wheel • An Inland Sea in California • Vanilla from Oats • The Sphygmophone • A Sponge Plantation

September
A Standard Scale • A Tell-Tale Compass • A New Theory of Dew • An Electrical Railway • Hardening Plaster Casts • A New Self-Swinging Gate • A Curious Mode of Catching Turtle • A New Underground Telegraph • Animal Rubber • A New Invalid Bed • Wire Belting • Electric Lights from Gas or Coal • Thread from the Hop Plant • A Safety Lamp • A Stony Forest • A Useful Bow • Diamondised Cloths • The Oscillometer • A Portable Meat Safe • Glass Wicks for Lamps • The Shells of Commerce • Spurious Emeralds • A New Railway Car • A Chemcial Volcano • How Long Have I to Live? [actuarial tables]

October
Flax Silk • Shone's Sewerage System • Straw-Wood • The Chromograph • A New Optical Illusion • Distress Signals • Conveying Electric Light • Small Tourist Maps • Silk from the Sea • A Gas Sewer Stopper • Imitation Amber • A Bicycle Boat • Visible Speech • A Self-Recording Thermograph • The Cyclops Fan • Life-Saving Belts • Incombustible Wood • Chlorine not an Element • Portable Railways • A New Megascope • New Metals • An Electrical Mounting Table • Novel Treatment of Sciatica • Locomotives on the Tow Path • The Electric Light in the Photographer's Studio • Electrical Letter-Boxes

November
A New Window for Hansom Cabs • The Telephone Syren • Self-Combustion of City Refuse • Storm Warnings by Carrier Pigeons • A New Pruner • Green Pigment from Coffee • Fishing for Torpedoes • A Robe of Glass • Luminous Flowers • Locking the Letter-Press • A Mechanical Churn • Electric Jewellery • A Metallic Thermometer • An Electrified Pine Forest • Kangaroo Tongues • Glass Railway Sleepers • The Tryptograph • Chinese Smoke-Rods • A New Variety of Silk • Electricity and Bee-Hiving • A Perforated Propeller Screw • The Penograph • An Alarm-Clock Lamp • A Steam Rammer • Gas and Fuel from Rice-Husks • Warming Railway Carriages • The Rataphone

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