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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1884
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Home > Victorian Science & Invention > Inventions > Science & Invention Roundups: The Gatherer
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- January
- A Rapid Water-Heater • A Luminous Liquid • A Stove Evaporator • Home-Made "Reservoir" Pen • An Electrical Speed Indicator • Organic Matter in the Sun • A Novel Whip and Reins Holder • Useful Sewing Machine Shuttle • A Useful Dustpan • Bleaching Sponges • The Hammer Telephone • A Movable Fence • A Coking Boiler • The Cleansing of Waste-Pipes • A Drying-Stove • Granolithic Conduits for Electric Wires • Useful Pair of Shears • Glass Sewer-Pipes • New Use for Old Quills • The Magnetophone • A Quadrant Tricycle • A New Mode of Joining Tramcars
- February
- An Electric Table Fan • An Electrical Watch • New Mode of Insulating Wires • Towing by Endless Chains • A Green Moon • A New Cable • Harvesting Ice • A Movable Lamp Reflector • A Sun-Wound Clock • A New Compass • Endless Trough-Conveyer • Coloured Photographs on Glass • Portable Meat-Safe • Gibbs' Grain-Dryer • New Potato Digger and Picker • A Handy Vice • Catechu and Boilers • A Tell-Tale Grapnel • A Traveling Electric Light • A Single-Rail Railway • Twenty-Four Hour Clock • Asbestos Enamel • Lighting Boilers • A Transplanting Tool • Ventilating Mines by Electricity • Soapstone for Fire-Bricks • A Great Boulder • Artificial Lithographic Stone • Railway Signalling by Induction • Electricity and Friction • Photography in Hospitals • Asphalte Mortar • Lighting Cars by Batteries • New Bridge Across Niagara River
- March
- A Parcels Post Balance • Helm Signal Lights • Manitoban Coal • A Novel Bridge • A Steam-Magnet • A Sunlight Battery • Soil-Heating • Universal Buoys • The Sun_Motor • Dyeing Cut Flowers • Reducing Metals by Gases • Speed of Tidal Waves • The Solar Corona • A Paper Insulator • Frozen Nitrogen • Composite Pavement • A Curious Optical Phenomenon • Steel-Framed Carriages • Electric Jewels • The Great Paris Telescope • A White Rainbow • A New Voltmeter • An Electric Firelock • Movable Houses • A Carpet Fastener • Power from Natural Gas • Curious Needles • Electric Wire Transport • A New Potato
- April
- An Automatic Filter • Barnet's Accumulator • A Negative Thermometer • A New Door-Handle • A Pocket Candlestick • Moss-Paper • A Pocket Battery • A Chain Coat-Loop • An Ambulance Steamer • Volcanic Air-Waves • A Skidless Tram-Rail • A Magnetic Balance • A Manganese-Bronze Engine • An Oil-Bearing Shell • A Natural Barometer • An Automatic Lathe • A New Mode of Generating Electricity • A Morning Glow • Electricity and Tanning • A Crystal Chair • A Mechanical Telephone • A New Life-Preserver at Sea • The Luxotype • A Wire-Fence Telegraph • The Ammoniaphone
- May
- A Lawn Tennis Signal Scorer • The Phonograph and Languages • Measuring Strong Lights • A New Spherical Engine • Electric Light from the Seine • The Centre-Cycle • A New Balloon • Magnetised Watches • A Pigmy Pump • An Electric Bicycle-Bell • An Electric Microscope • A Circular Rainbow • Sound Mills • A New Police Whistle • Sinking Shafts by Freezing • Fairy Rings • A Mountain Laboratory • Heat and Dust • Cedar-Paper • Electricity and Tunnelling • Inoculating for Hydrophobia • Vegetable Tallow • A Handy Cork-Drawer • An Electric Insect • Marbelising Glass • A Watch-Clock • A Pocket Coat and Hat Rack • Manure from Slag
- June
- A Useful Book-Rest • Ailsa Craig Fog-Siren • Is There a Magnetic Sense? • A Miniature Sun • An Air-Filter • The Telphonograph • A Finger-Power Brake • Invisible Wire • A Safe Lime-Light • Artistic Alarms • An Electrified Lounge • Effects of Pressure on Life • The Percentograph • A Lightning-Rod Tester • A Station Indicator • A Trunk Life-Buoy • An Electric Gas-Tap and Lighter • A New Mode of Stamping Letters • Hydrogen Amalgam • New Deep-Sea Fishes • A Novel Table • The Hand as a Telephone • A Marine Station • A New Fire-Escape
- July
- A Seed Germinator • A Fireless Locomotive • Grape-Seed Oil • Cast-Iron Boilers • Natural Coke • Effects of Cold on Microbes • A New Fog-Horn • Remarkable Uses of the Telephone • Electric Light Conductors • A Watch Demagnetiser • A Floating Reed Island • A Ventilated Garden-Frame • Solid Carbonic Acid • A Gas Flat-Iron • Pictures in Stone • A Giant Orchid • A Cheap Lightning-Rod • Etching on Glass • Tanning Linen • The Dynamo and the Telegraph • Voting by Electricity • A Neolithic Roadway • A Marine Gyroscope • An Automatic Flute • A Sodium Battery • Danger from Flies • An Electric Mountain Railway • New Applications of the Electric Light • Telegraphing 7,000 Miles • A Sinking Mountain
- August
- A Wall-Filter • Glass Pulleys • A Gold Battery • A New Cable Tramway • The Potetometer • A Mercury Galvanometer • The Largest China Vase in the World • Burns from Nitric Acid • Automatic Wings • A Lawn Rake Attachment • A Tea-Dryer • A One-Rail Electric Line • A Standard of Light • New Microscope Slides • A Subterranean Fish • Electric Light Effects • Paper Watches • A Submarine Electric Lamp • Distributing Electricity • A Sheathed Razor • A New Speed Indicator • A Self-Adjusting Hook • An Ancient Tree • A New Pyrometer • A New Bell • Compound Carbons • A Portable Electric Bell • Asbestos Boxes • New Stains • Temperature Tubes • The Gravimotor • The Pressure of the Sea • A Cure for Steamed or Frosty Glass
- September
- A Hydrogen Lamp • A Steam Fishing Fleet • Manganese in Plants • An Electric Chicken-Hatcher • A Colour-Combiner • An Electric Water-alarm • A Portable Work-Bench • A Light-Reflecting Ventilator • Artificial Lighting • Vultures and Telephone Wires • The Forth Bridge • Self-Lighting Beacons • Preserved Eggs • Velocity of Sound in Air • The Aerophor • Colours Photographed in Natural Shades • The Value of Sweepings • Electricity and Vine-Growing • Soldering Alumnium • A New Knife-Cleaner • Bed Railway Carriages • A Pneumatic Light • Paper Pails • An Earthquake Recorder • Manganese-Steel • A Shooting Screen • A Smokeless Engine • A Sail-Waggon • A New Butter-Worker
- October
- An Aerating Flower-Pot • A Treasure-Safe • Electric Light Spectacles • A Greenhouse Heat-Alarm • A Sewer-Gas Cremator • A British Biological Station • A Novel Fire-Escape • An Electrical Actinometer • An Oxide Gas-Burner • The Packer's Puzzle • Lightning and Electric Wire Lights • The Steno-Telegraph • A Standard Ohm • Motion Drawings • An Osmium Telephone • A New Pipe-Joint • A Marble Churn • A Neat Parlour Organ • Damp Proof Paint
- November
- A Boot-Label • An Electrical Parcels Post • Squaring the Circle • A Useful Rack • A New Railway Engine • A Giraffe Hotel • A New Lamp-Glass • Gas-tight Tubing • A Book-Clip • Artificial Globe Lightning • An Electric Governor • A Distance Judger • Siemens' Lightning-Rod Tester • A Propelling Balloon
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