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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1881
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Home > Victorian Science & Invention > Inventions > Science & Invention Roundups: The Gatherer
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- December (1880)
- A Chemical Lung • Refuge Caves for Miners • A Steep Railway • Making Paper Waterproof • A New Dye from Poplar-Wood • Lightning Photographs • The Photophone • Cinchona in Bengal • New Sea-Sounders • The Telephone in Mines • Cooking Burners •
- January
- Hot Ice • New Electric Lamps • The Ventilation of Ships • A New Fire-Damp Indicator • New Fog-Horns • Photographing Nebulae • Paraffin as a Wood-Preserver • Automatic Washing Machine • Artificial Marble • A Self-Acting Fire-Extinguisher • A Cure for Smoke • A Moving WRailway Station • The Chronodeik • An Electric Hammer • Ericsson's Torpedo • A Geyser in a Coffee-Cup • Fog Spectres
- February
- Cleaning White Silk Lace • Phosphated Flour • A Machine for Washing Dishes • An Electric Lift • An Electrical Fire Tell-Tale • Alarm Telephones • Adams' Gas Stove • A New Vine • The Focus Gas-Burner • Blacking Boots by Machinery • Best Form for Lightning Conductors • A Pneumatic "Cash" • A New Deep-Sea Sounding Apparatus • A Protective Dress for Firemen •A Glass Window Blind • Flexible Rail Joints • A New Forage Plant
- March
- A Frost Tell-Tale • A Machine for Washing Bottles • A Nail-Driver • A Mighty Lever • A Lightning Photograph • Explosive Harpoons • An Improved Smokeless Grate • The Ellipsograph • A Trans-Australian Railway • The Radiophone • Heating Railway Cars by Steam • A Cure for Snake-Bites • Safety-Cheques • Arctic Observatories • Colour Relations of Metals • The Colours of Flowers and Leaves • Mica Soles • A Speaking Condenser • Roasting Meat by Hot Water
- April
- Harmonic Telegraphy • A "Perpetual" Watch • A New Electric Motor • An Artist's Brush-Holder • Lime-Preserved Wood • An Electrical Fire Tell-Tale • A Simple Magic Lantern • Why Bees Prefer to Work in Darkness • Musical Gases • A Vegetable Hygrometer • Beclouded Mirrors • African Exploration • Patterns on Pearl Buttons • Kindling Fires with Gas • Cement for Aquariums • A Carriage Driven by Gas • An Electric Probe
- May
- A New Tap for Effervescing Liquids • Electricity and Wool-Spinning • A Growing Industry [lime plantations in Montserrat] • A Magnetic Thermometer • New Telephones • Liquid Ozone • A Drop Attachment for Bottles • Recording Sunshine by Photography • A Pocket Pulse-Writer • Safe Gigs and Carts • An Ingenious Pair of Tongs • The Telephotograph • Inlaying Wood by Pressure • The Tide Predictor • A Self-Adjusting Berth • Private Time-Signals
- June
- A New Bronze • A Mountain Lift • Vanilla Sugar • A New Filter • A Letter Album • The Hypsometer • A Pedestal Sponge-Bath • An Electrical Soldering-Iron • A Recording Barometer • A Time Globe • Electrical Torsion • The Mekarski Air-Locomotive • A New Tram-Rail • Mr. Grubb's New Telescope • Anatomical Illumination • An Electrical Thermometer • Tricycles for Telegraph Messengers • A Mechanical Groom • Dishes from Shavings • A Reporting Machine
- July
- A Useful Ventilator • Disc Scissors • Self-Opening Tins • A New Gem [Hiddenite] • A Folding Bath • Birch-Bark Rubber • A Mechanical Fork-Cleaner • A Botanical Dissecting Microscope • New Domestic Balances • Time by Electricity • Petroleum Soap • Black Potatoes • A "Pocket" Boat • Molecular Music • Suspending Railway Seats • The Spectrophone • Artificial Seasoning of Wood • A Graduated Railway Buffer • A New Kind of Embroidery • Paper Belting • An Electric Velocipide
- August
- New Use of the Telephone • A Protective Bloom for Steel • A New Thermograph • Curious Optical Phenomena • Maxim's Electric Light • Indoor Rowing • A Folding Cradle • A Leech Barometer • Smoke Abatement • A Tenant Fish • A Gas Fire-Lighter • A Box of Electricity • Effect of Chloroform on Plants • A Collapsing Boat Carriage • A Disinfecting Paint • Flexible Ivory • The Corinthian Canal • A Float Clock • Carving Glass • Metal Slates • Iron Statues • Cooking by Electricit • Moth-Trap for Bee-Hives • An Electrical Omnibus
- September
- Sanitary Paint • An Iron Lightning Conductor • Plastic Metal • The Telegraph in Arctic Travel • A New Life-Buoy • Straw and Hay Fuel • Map Rack for Schools • A Tricycle Carriage • a Night-Light Clock • A Portable Meteorological Station • A Fresh Water Supply for Animals • Electrical Steering • A Scented Camellia • Oxygen from Bleaching Powder • Siemens' Bat's-Wing Burner • A Glove Fastener • A New Telephone • A Cold Light • An Electric Hoist • A Microscopic Motor • A New Water Elevator • Coir Soles
- October
- A New Torpedo • Public Barometers • A New Exhilarant • A Refrigerated Store • A Colour-Organ • A Cancelling Stamp • A Painless Probe • A Useful Lesson in Physics • Another New Thermograph • Improved Calipers • A Life-Saving Umbrella • The Sun Lamp • Colour Photographs • Electricity in the Balloon • Composite Portraits • The Autocopyist • The Velocity of Light • Fans in the House • The Electric Light in Coal Mines • The Transplantation of Bone • Celluloid • A Reservoir of Electricity • A Hill-side Locomotive • An Electric Speech Recorder
- November
- An Improved Railway Car • A Surgical Machine • An Electric Lamplighter • A New Safety-Lamp • A Simple Mole-Trap • A Registering Stamp • A Discovery in Ship-Building • A Simple Balance • A Steam Catamaran • A Fire-Damp Consumer • A Paralune • Boat-Lowering Gear • Gas from Castor Oil • Caution About Toy Pistols • A Chimneyless Lamp • A Solar Watch • A Naptha Locomotive • An Electrical Balloon • A New Machine [a railroad track tester] • Hearing Plants Grow
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