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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1885
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Home > Victorian Science & Invention > Inventions > Science & Invention Roundups: The Gatherer
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- December (1884)
- Window-Sash Holder • New Electric Boats • Vulcoleine • New Table-Knife • An Improved Bird-Cage • A New Gas-Making Process • A Water-Bell • Chinese Garden Plants • Glass Bearings • A Solar Pyrometer • A Proposed New Route to Montreal • Shale-Oil for Fuel • Improved Carriage Harness • Water-Velocipede • Water-Tight Ventilators • A Portable Accumulator • A Curious Flower • Blasting Paper • An Oven Within an Oven • A Combined Broom and Hose • A Fish-Eating Plant • An Ingenious Manifold Writer • A Simple Reservoir Pen
- January
- An Easy-Going Curtain Ring • Molten Lead in the Eye • A Straw-Burning Engine • Fire-Fly Light • A Rowing Machine • An Electric Bell Tell-Tale • A Grenade Fire-Extinguisher • Useful Door-Knob • An Electric Piano-Lamp • A Tricycle Chair • An Illuminated Train • Portable Railway Bridges • New Drip-Tiles • The Heliograph in Mauritius • Paper from Sugar-Cane Refuse • Electric Power for Paris • Apatite • Australian Timber • A Steel Nose-Band for Horses • An Aerial Propeller • Heliographic Paper • Some Novel Christmas and New Year's Cards
- February
- Electric Ship Lights • Azotine • A Model Lens • Wild Plant Fabrics • Oil on the Waves • A Spiral Spring Piston • A Line Divider • A Recording Rain-Gauge • An Electric Light Locomotive • The Grinnel Fire Extinguisher • A New Laryngoscope • Peat Moss Fibre • Petrified Wood-Work • Health Clothing • A Water-Softener • A Small Engine • An Improved Coffee-Pot • Treadle-Driving • Telephoning Through Water
- March
- A New Shoe-Tie • A Giant Gas-Flame • How to Select Tinned Foods • House-Warming Apparatus • Removing Motes from the Eye • A Long-Pull Electro-Magnet • Magnesium Search-Lights • Flint Bricks • Rhythm and Walking • Correcting Coins by Electricity • A View-Meter • Making Koumiss • The Radiator Ventilator • The Hoeschotype • New Modes of Filtering • A Pupil Photometer • A New Safety Bearer • A Pocket Anemometer • Niagara Falls • The Oldest Tree • A Local Anesthetic • An Atmospheric Meter • De-silvering Lead by Electricity • Electric Hand-Lamps • A Portable Green-House • A Check-Clcok• A Simple Fire-Damp Detector • A Prolific Telegraph • A Submarine Swamp
- April
- A Telegraph Lamp-Post • A Shell with Eyes • Purifying Water by Air • New Grottoes • A Test for Hearing • A Four-Footed Bird • A Tornado Photographed • Disinfecting Rooms • A Silurian Scorpion • A Test of Colour-Blindness • Drawing Wire from Fluid Steel • A New Tool for Gardeners • Spontaneous Combustion of Coal • A Test for Petroleum • A New Floating Breakwater • A Step-Ladder Easel • Magnetising the Lodestone • An Electric Foot-Warmer • A Self-Cleaning Garden Rake • Quicksilver and Phylloxera • Asbestos Hat-Linings • A New Arc-Lamp • A Simple Magic Mirror • A New Light for Spectrum Analysis • A Travelling Chair • A New Voltemeter • A Giant Pulley • Miniature Music
- May
- A New Drawing-Square • Silicine Glass Painting • The Electric Light in the Bath-Room • A Novel Sunshade • A Cure for Writer's Cramp • Map-Making by Dynamos • A New Sunshine Recorder • Improvements in Cooking Vessels • A New Ellipsograph • Accumulators as Electric Light Regulators •
The Otoscope • A Safe Window-Latch • Cleansing Cisterns • Dynamos and Danger • A New Reading-Stand • A Whispering Machine • The Hypnoscope • Conveying Ships by Rail
- June
- A Twisting Clock • Improved Steel Gardening Tools • A Steam-Dogcart • A Carbon Dust-Pail • Aluminium Alloys • A Signal-Buoy • A New Oar • Roraima • Cork Bricks • A New Garden Engine and Roller • Illuminating Balances • Utilising Niagara • Hardening Plaster • The Camera Obscura in Coast Defence • A Simple Lantern Screen • Electricity from Sugar • Earthquake Signals • Carbon in Steel • An Electrical Engraver • An Alum Mountain • Rearing Puppies in Coloured Light • An Improved Trivet • The Sonebula • Protecting Electric Lights from Lightning • A Traveling Telegraph • An Automatic Phidol
- July
- A New Aeolian Harp • Back Springs for Boots • Bleaching by Petroleum • An Automatic Shoal Sounder • Distributing Time by Electricity • Soldering Platinum • Salting Paths • A Brake for Perambulators • Concentrating Rays • An Electric Lamp Clock • A Spiral Letter Rack • Winds as Fertilisers • A Pocket Ruby Lamp • A Novel Method of Lighting Railway Stations • The Soil of Manitoba • Catalpa Sleepers • The Valve Telephone • A Folding Music Stand • A New Sewage Process • A Siphon Fountain • An Electric Torpedo Launch • A Textile Shield • Compressed Teak • Decimal Time
- August
- Adjustable Desks • Magnetic Shrinkage • A New Flower-Holder • A Contractible Perambulator • One Fire for Two Rooms • Another Safe Window-Fastener • A Rubber-Lined Thimble • A Pocket Ambulance • A Camp Filter • A New Gutta-Percha Tree • Iron Flour-Grinders • A Combination Carriage • The Electric Light at the Inventions Exhibition • A Balance Fire-Alarm • Rubber-Jointed Pipes • Drinkable Sea-Water • A Mercury Telephone • Danger from Oil-Lamps • A Railway Pedometer • A Corrugated Hand-Lamp • The Electric Light and Moths • Hanging Tiles • Photographing the Larynx • A Selenium Actinometer • An Electrical Rainbow • A Siphon Cistern • Belt Conductors • A New Index for Books
- September
- A Removable Cricket-Spike • A New Use for Asbestos • The Colour of the Sun • A Self-Charging Accumulator • Artificial Earthquakes • Sea-Weed Paper • A Disinfecting Lamp • Kendall's Electric Generator • A Harmless Soldering-Flux • Dyeing by Pressure • A Portable Fire-Escape • A Photograph of Lightning • A Pile Telegraph Post • A New Type-Writer • Bleaching Ivory • An Electric Winch • Chinese Fruit Soup • Nickel Crucibles • Cocoa Gunpowder • A Lighted Watch-Case • Platinoid • Projecting Life-Lines as Fire-Escapes • A Dry Battery • Condensing Lead Fumes by Electricity • A Self-Opening Gate • Mercury as Ballast • Asphalted Tiles • A Portable Birdcage • Wire Laths • A Gas-Lit Buoy • A Body Lightning-Rod • An Automatic Cotton-Picker
- October
- A Demonstration Microscope • Valerian Dressing • An Electric Plant • A Gigantic Blast • A Balloon Railway • Water Gas • The Electric Light and Guns • An Iceberg Detector • A Curious Halo • Gold Extraction by Electricity • Safety Wheel for Cycles • Magnetising Hard Steel • Self-Acting Stay for Hinged Lids • A Vacuum Speed Indicator • A Safety Catch for Perambulators • A River Flame • An Air-Tight Stopper • Disinfectants for Cholera • A Sulphur-Silver Cell • Rubber Stairs • The Electric Light and Centipedes • A Simple Ether Freezer • A Portable Cooking-Range • An Electric Glass Piercer • An Electrical Wind-Vane • Luminous Paint and Earthquakes • An Electric Scale • The Size of Atoms • A Noiseless Cradle • Freezing Water from Microbes • A Ventilating Gas-Lamp
- November
- A Chimney Climber • Lighthouse Illumination • An Electric Vessel • A Rug Machine • Rotary Castors • Solid Electrolytes • The Xylophone • A Type Reporter • A Revolving Hand-Basin • An Electrical Clip-Light • The Mechanical Telephone • A New Music Folio • Liquefying Oxygen • A Metallic Pocket Thermometer • A New Ambulance Stretcher • Our Ancestors • A Shuttleless Loom • An Asylum Tell-Tale • A Gas Beacon • The Great Glacier of Alaska • The Walking Beam-Saw • The Silex Piano • The Standard Flame • A Floating Dome
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