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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1886
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Home > Victorian Science & Invention > Inventions > Science & Invention Roundups: The Gatherer
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- December (1885)
- A New Wire Rope • A Photographic Tricycle • A Cure for Chilblains • A Fancy Clock • A Balloon Camera • An Electric Safety-Lamp • Refining Sugar by Electricity • A Domestic Food-Preserver • Cocoaine in Sea-Sickness • A New Door-Handle • The Largest Explosion on Record • An Iron Silo • The Submarine Boat • A New Dynamo • New Varieties of Christmas Gifts • A Sanitary Valve • The New Star • A New Magnetic Telphone • The Square Bamboo
- January
- A Cash Register • Some Novel Christmas and New Year's Cards • An Elephantine Building • A New Window-Sash Fastener • A New Pocket Pencil-Case • A Rick Screw • Another Pocket Ambulance • A Domestic Transit Instrument • Electricity from Running Streams • A New Magic Lantern • Photographing the Retina • A New War Vessel • Detaching Runaway Horses • Mosaic Glass • Improved Locks and Keys [Introducing the "Yale" lock!) • An Air Propeller • The Hell Gate Fuse • A Magnetic Umbrella • A Porous Disinfector • New Bronchitis Kettle
- February
- The Physiograph • A Train Communicator • A Safety Bracelet • Peat Fuel for Locomotives • A Steering Propeller • A Cure for Hydrophobia • A Ship Ambulance • New Concrete Buildings • A New Dephosphorizing Process • New Distance Measurers • One-Hundred-Copy Ink • A Miner's Gas Detector • A Combined Knife, Saw and Mincer • Unmagnetisable Steel • A New Stopper • A Pocket Thermometer • Depositing Aluminium • Electric Light Wires and Thunder • Eucalyptus in Boilers • A New Water-Motor • The Smallest Steam-Engine • Goubet's Submarine Boat • A Slag Pavement • Electricity in Dentistry • The Deepest Bore-Hole • Steel-Toothed Belting • Transmission of Power by Electricity • A New Hygrometer
- March
- Two New Lights • Toughening Paper • Stamp Box and Damper • A Domestic Battery • A Ventilated Cap • Facts About Growth • A New Method of Making Bread • A Fire-Extinguishing Ball • Model Bricks • Telegraph Poles in the Soudan • A New Electro-Magnet • Hints on the Care of Petroleum Lamps • A Floating Dress • A New Fire-Proof Plaster • A Submarine Gun • A Useful Plant for Engineers • A New Magic Lantern • A New Glove and Boot Fastener • Pocket Ship Signals • An Ammonia Locomotive • A Pocket Drawing-Square • A Recuperative Gas-Lamp
- April
- A Safe Lamp • Easily Opened Tins • Making Glue Insoluble • A New Wood Flooring • Ventilating Carriages • New Linings for Hats • A Phosphorescent Cloud • An Unstretching Chain • A Floating Telegraph Station • A Portable Copying Press • Copper and Iron Telegraph Wires • A Simple Railway Coupling • A New Whip-Holder • A Russian Cure for Hydrophobia • A New Fire-Escape • Uintahita • Electrical Imitation of Leather • Door Buffers • A Wind Globe • A New Reflector • A Chopping Machine • A Torpedo Catcher • A New Cycling Bell • An Electric Mountain Railway
- May
- A New Chimney-Top • A Photographic Bag • The Telemicrophone • The Best Lightning Rod • Eucalyptus Fluid • Trimming Wood Pavement • A Hinged Lamp-Shade • A Pedal Fan • A Standard Volt • The Telephone on Lightships • Wire Stone-Cutters • A Use for Liquefied Gas • Cobalt and Copper Alloys • A Cable Tell-Tale • Glazing Without Putty • A Carriage-Window Fastener • Mirror Spectacles • A New Turkish Bath Heater • A New Incandescent Lamp • A Self-Lighting Gas Burner • A Red-Hot Telephone • Paper Rails • A New Bicycle Saddle • Magnetism and Embryos • Safe Horse-Shoes • Log-Mines • A Stop-Valve for Pipes • Predicting Tornadoes • A Grate Coking Chamber • An Iron Prison • Gasolene For Forges • A Foot Coping-Press • A Gust Anemometer • Uses for Toads
- June
- A New Garden Rake • Electric Smelting • A New Box-Wood • A Gigantic Sea-Weed • A Chronometer Oven • Metal Tennis Rackets • A Large Diamond • An Automatic Inkstand • Photographing by Lightning • A Help for Infant Schools • The Sensophone • Bamboo Oil • A Steam Carriage • Flower-Sugar • A Pocket Actinometer • A New Electric Light • Refrigerating Tubes • Photographic Cards • A Child's Safety Cot • Dilatancy • A Rotary Punkah • Catching Fire • Aluminium in Iron and Steel • A Safety Hand-Bag • A Disinfecting Chamber
- July
- A Drawing-Paper Clip • A New Cane Sugar • A Platinum Filter • A Triangular Nail • Edison's Railway Telegraph • A Revolving Album-Case • An Armour-Plated Thimble • A New Food-Preserver • Saccharin • The Ear and the Earth's Magnetism • A Lamp-Stove • A New Gas-Burner • A Collapsible Life-Raft • A New Magnesium Light • A Cement for Ironwork • The Meldometer • Fresh Fruit from Australia • Bark-Bread • A Straining Milk-Pail • Sifting Coal by Air • A Long Conduit • A New Drawing-Board and Slate • New Swings • Fire-Risks of Nitric Acid • A New Stereoscope
- August
- A Double Safety-Lamp • A Toothless Saw • An Electric Submarine Boat • The Photoscopic Compass • Poison from Mincing Machines • Diamond Steel • An Echo Fog-Signal • Lubricating Signal Wires • Illuminating a Pond • A Colour Photometer • A Safe Hoist • Dermatine • Inter-urban Telephony • Condensing Milk in Vacuo • A New Tennis Pole • The Perspectograph • The Luminosity of Leaves • A Gas Poker • The Phonophore • Diatomite in Skye • A use for Fire-Damp • Purifying by Lignite • A Reversible Lock • Damascening by Electricity • Colour Standards • Maize-Meal Food • An Electric Railway Reading-Lamp
- September
- A Night-Light Holder • Explosive Ice • The Graphophone • An Electric Travelling Crane • Aluminium Tin • An Improved Oil-Can • A Floating Locker • A New Water-Motor • A New Castor • Sugar and Boilers • A Magnesium Torch • A Green Sun • A Stamp Affixer • Egyptian Petroleum • A Handy Screw-Jack • An Optical Illusion • The Speed of Swallows • A Steel Wire Gun • A New Fountain Pen • Water-Power from Niagara • A Lamp-Stove • A Cheap Concrete • Thermometers for White Heat • A Submarine Oil Spring • Weighing an Electric Current • A Thread Tidy • Luminous Cement • A Dead-Black Paint • An Electric Light Fire-Damp Alarm • Slag Manure • Dagame • A New Door-Bolt • Pine-Tree Gas • A Quickly Boiling Kettle • A Reversible Ruler • Amalgam Relief • Paper Shingles • The Pasteur Filter • Kettles Made by Electricity
- October
- A Spout Protector • Tanning with Soap • Botanists' Parasol • A Large Electric Locomotive • A Nickel Lightning Rod • Out-Door Bagatelle • Photographing Sound • A New Mode of Flame-Heating • A Wax Phonograph • Branding by Electricity • India-Rubber Ear-Drums • A Chiming Dinner Bell • Telemaregraphs • Dust Fuel • Electric Police Signals • Oil from Wood • A Pocket Sewing Machine • Numbness from Lightning • The Krotophone • a New Drawing-Frame • The King-Fish • Preserving Fish • A Great Balloon • Two Curious Pens • A Chlorine Gas Battery • A Large Kettle • Glass Bearings • Recent Photography • Laying Dust in Mines • A Pocket Drinking Cup • Electricity and Ensilage • A Smoke-Burning Furnace • Spiral Lightning • A Tennis Indicator • A New Hand-Grenade [fire-extinguisher]
- November
- A Sleeveless Waterproof • Rail Foundations • A Bore-Hole Camera • Tracing a Leaky Pipe • Protecting Small Gas-Flames • An "In" or "Out" Indicator • An Antiseptic Vessel • Electricity and Fodder • A Door Fastener • Tests for Water • The Omni-Telemeter • Ice from Natural Gas • A New Hair-Pin • An Important New Railroad • A Folding Grapnel • A Spring Pen Lithographer • A New Window-Cleaner • Cocoa Palms and Lightning • A Boot Ventilator • Casting Glass
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