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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1883

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December (1882)
An Indicating Weather-Cock • Triptolith • Reducing Gold and Silver Ores by Electricity • Uses of the Sunflower • Filtering Through Spongy Iron• A Novel Clock • A Stack of Lava • A Luminous Water-Gauge • Steel Casks • A New Ornamental Paper • A Monster Flagstone • A Benzine Candle • The Stinging Tree • A New Conservatory Heater • An Electrical Launch • A Curious Use for Ants • A Magnesia Light •A New Ruler • A Battery of Flames • The Duplex Electric Lamp • Utilising Wood-Smoke • Zinc Foil in Boilers • A Corrugated Vent • Gas from Metals • Artificial Graphite • A Gigantic Strap • Woodland Sounds by Telephone • Keeping Silver-Plate Bright • A Photometer on Wheels • The Microscope and Building

January
An Electric Drill • New Mode of Storing Grain • The Heliograph and Cyclones • Bleaching Diamonds • A Warning Lamp • An Asbestos Fire-Shield • A Monster Movable Steam-Crane • Iridium-Tipped Saw-Teeth • A Signal Balloon • The Spectrum of the Large Comet • Peat Dressing for Wounds • A Constant Thermometer • A Grasping Tree • A Telegraph Exchange • An Artificial Moon • An Electrical Valve-Closer • Pneumatic Power • A New Padlock • Straw Timber • An Electrical "Iris΄• The Crumbling of Tin • A Steam Milk-Can Cleaner • Mr. Fowler's Egyptian Ship Canal • A Simple Accumulator

February
A Railway Velocipede • Cable Tramways • Steel from Ore • A New Power Meter • A Fire Battery • A New T-Square •The Ferranti Dynamo • Glass-Blowing by Machinery • Telephoning Music • A Globe-Holding Candlestick • Soluble Alizarin • A Fireproof Door • Preserving Honey • A Fountain Tooth-Brush • A Projecting Praxinoscope • Transmitting Power by Air • Self-Acting Railway Signals • A New Spectrum Giver • Dugong Oil • A Tuning-Fork Piano • Cutting Glass by Electricity • An Iron Man

March
Self-Locking Coal-Plates • Paper from Bark • Soldering Without an Iron • Enamelled Cloth • Vinegar in the Sick-Room• An Electrified Lily • A New Type-Writer • Glycerine and Glue • A New Safety-Lamp • Wire Fences in Thunderstorms • Moonlight Photographs • An Electric Kettle • An Electric Tricycle • Horizontal Compasses • Electrical Fuel • The Dove Flower • Time by Telephone • A Wedge Photometer • Carrier Pigeons for Naval Use • Jumping Seed • Wire Guns • Removing Paint and Putty • New Fishes • A Princely Safe • Keeping Toilet Water Hot • Vegetable Butter • Mosquito Oil

April
Electric Light Signs • Window-Blind Holder • Feline Sanitary Inspectors • A Vegetable Slicer • What is Ensilage? • An Ingenious Sack-Holder • A Model Eye • The Photo-Micrograph • A New Voltaic Battery • Photo-Filigrane • Electrotyping Telegraph Wires • A Fossil Mine • A Vast Coal-Vein • New Ground Shears • Bean Cheese • A New Anti-Scorbutic • Novel Nozzle for Fire-Hose • Pattern-Printing by Electricity • A Moving Hill • A Simple Tellurian • A Chemical Fire-Engine • An Electric Amalgamator • Curious Effect of Lightning • A New Method of Enameling Water-Pipes • A Buoy Life-Boat • A Centrifugal Soot-Collector • Making Luminous Paint • A Servants' Time Recorder

May
Gas from Oil and Water • A Greenhouse Boiler • An Electric Tram-Car • A Self-Acting Coffee Roaster • A Caged Electric Light • An Indicating Door-Mat • Made-Up Mica Crystals • An Electric Fan • A Swing for the Nursery • An Artificial Aurora • Killing Rats by Electricity • A Gas Accumulator • Ammonia from Blast Furnaces • Gold-Washing by Electricity • A New Telephone • Power by Telegraph • Softening Hard Rubber • A Novel Oil-Can • Electric Light by Induction • Fireproof Dwellings • A Wire-Gauze Telephone Transmitter • Luminous Dress Trimmings • The Electric Light and the Microscope • Steel Crystals • Acid-Resisting Bricks • A New Tricycle • A Cheese-Making Berry

June
A Recuperative Gas-Lamp • The Telephone in Diving • A Treadle Hair-Brush • A Tubular Plant-Label • Ink Paste • An Abacus for Slates • Hydrogen Whistles • A New Ship-Canal • Steel from Refuse Pyrites • An Electric Reading-Lamp • Flexible Self-Gauging Faucet • Asbestos Rope • Electric Flannel • A New Electrical Machine • A Burglar-Alarm

July
A Lamp Extinguisher • Utilising Diatoms • A New Mess-Tin • Electric Telpherage • A New Miner's Lamp • Silvering by Glycerine • Illuminated Railway Signals • Silk Ornamentation Made Easy • New Fire Protectives • The Electric Light in Surgery • A New Egg-Beater • Electric Boiler-Alarms • A Vacuum Microphone • Green-Bearded Oysters • Science on Ben Nevis • The Photophore • Speaking at a Distance of 1000 Miles • Crackled Glass • Speed of Smelling • Steel-Iron • Incombustible Paper

August
A Constant Voltaic Battery • Two New Knives • A Diffusion Motor • A Monster Spring • A New Rubber-Plant • New Coffee-Roaster • New Inks • Mid-Ocean Telegraphy • Dust-Storms • Preserving Meat • a Polyblade Knife • The Paradise Fish • A New Lily • Sulphur in Shot Rubbish • A Useful Solder • A Magnetic Chime • A New Artificial Light • Potato Ivory • A New Water-Meter • Foam Balls • Non-Copying Ink-Pencils • A Sixty-Ton Crane • A New Earthquake Detector • A New Potato Steamer • Luminous Magnets • Aluminium Foil • Aluminium-Coated Iron • Utilising Diseased Potatoes • Zinc-Painted Iron • Leather from Leather-Waste • Firing Clothes by Sunlight

September
An Electric Match • A Submarine Balloon • A New Glass • An Aluminium [Ship's] Log • New Tracing Paper • A Combined Battery and Bell • Algin • A New Pen-Knife • Artificial Limbs • An Electric Light Factory • Artificial Gutta-Percha • Lattice Steps • Phosphorescent Sulphur • A New Electric Lamp • A Self-Opening Umbrella • Paper Pipes • A Use for Skimmed Milk • A New Tram-Rail • A New Electric Boat • Photography for Amateurs • Electricity and Amber • A Searing Stamp • A Tidal Buoy • Maignen's Filter • An Electric Gun • Metallodion • Fullers'-Earth Electrodes • Novel Dredge for Shell-Fish • A Selenium Light Regulator • Hints in Lightning Storms • Reducing Lead by Electricity • Corrugated Boiler-Flues

October
A Seaside Spy-Glass • Metallising Wood • Electric Light Bouquets • A New Windmill • Fourgeot's Fire Alarm • A Floating Telescope • A New Tricycle Saddle • FrozenMeat • A New Breakwater • Waterproof Canvas • Copying Fossil Prints • A Novel Railway Key • A Tricycle Boat • An Easily Opened Pocket-Knife • An Incombustible Insulator • An Electric Tram-Car • A New Stylographic Pen • An Anti-Torpedo Vessel • An Iron Permanent Way • Another Electric Launch • A Portable Blow-Pipe Lamp • Coloured Prints of Flowers • A Spring-Handled Hammer • An Electric-Lighted Villa • Tramway Omnibuses • A Petrified Forest

November
A Gas Escape Tell-Tale • Storm-Sounds in the Telephone • A New Electric Motor • A Mechanical Nurse • An Electric Ceiling • Coloured Metal Films • A Registering Steelyard • Artificial Breathing • Asbestos Packing • The Earth Torpedo • A Pigmy Locomotive • Kelway's Telemeter • How the Electric Light Affects Health • Soap Varnish • An Unsinkable Boat • A New Telephone • A New Quinine • The Bernstein Electric Lamp • A Steering Perambulator • Light and Anthracene • Phosphor-Copper • Palm-Paper • Caustic Soda Fuel for Engines

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