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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1887

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December (1886)
A Bell-Pull Switch • Casting Iron on Brass • A Frost Curio • A Mechanical Knot-Tier • Wire Fenders for Ships • A Tricycle Cab • Surveying by Electric Light • A Novel Lacing Stud • An Office Lamp • A Steel Steamer • A New Mechanical Device • A Yucca Arch • An Electric-Store Launch • A Magnetic Probe • Lightning Holes in the Alps • A Tell-Tale Paint • A Cab Communicator • A New Food for Invalids • A Mercury Train Signaller • Steel Wire Matting • A Gumming Mill • A Knot-Stitch Sewing Machine • A Self-Acting Music Holder • Marine Wool • A Sheep-Shearing Machine • Vibration and Taste • A Carriage Sash Fixer • Preventing Panics in Halls • Pine Tannin • A Giant Wire Rope • Treacle in Fuel • A Hot-Air Gas-Burner • Stopping Chanticleer • A Steam Balloon • Swan's Electric Safety Lamp • A Boiler Dredge • Some Seasonable Novelties • A Photograph of Lightning • Driving Piles by Dynamite • A Needle File • An Electrical Foot-Warmer

January
A Glass Bird-Cage • A Handy Table Easel • Darkness Photographs • A Railway Station Indicator • Precipitated Gilding • Uses of Sugar • Signalling by Gas • Heat Conductors in Cooking • A Combination Ladder • Soap from Sheep's Wool • Seaweed Note-Paper • What Is Massage? • Purifying Water by Iron • Training Guns by Electricity • A Poison Guard • Meteoric Resin • Tea and Lead • A New Hansom • Transparent Photographic Paper • A Water Cartridge • New Locomotives • A Magnetic Boiler Alarm • A Safety Spirit-Lamp • Christmas and New Year Cards • A Lifting Shadow • An Illuminated Rose • Woodite

February
A Removable Sash • An Artificial Island • Gauze Welding • A New Cartridge • An Extending Handle for Brooms • A Handy Typewriter • Gilded Chrysalides • Reindeer Life-Belts • An Indicating Door-Bolt • A Tiny Battery • An Improved Dust-Pan • A Mixture for Screws • A New Inhaler • An Extension Ladder • A Glass Cliff • Kola Chocolate • Long Distance Photography • Manufactured Rubies • Fluor • Steel Water-Pipes • Colouring Phosphorence • Tunneling the Rocky Mountains • A Carriage Roof-Lamp • A Lamp-Chimney Cleaner • A Gas Hammer • Cocaine in Horse-Firing • The Golden Orfe • An Ironing Machine • Pianoforte Silencing • An Electric Gong • The Electric Light and Lilies • The Brachionograph • A Use for Sodium • A Label Clip

March
A Reservoir Flower-Pot •The Green Ray • Paper from Peat • A Use for Starch Waste • Heating Railway Cars by Steam • A Magazine Gun • A New Music-Writer • A New Stove • Photographing by Phosphorescence • Metal-Edged Boxes • A Self-Opening Coal Scuttle • Pearl-Fishing by Electric Light • Telling Fresh Eggs • A Marvel in Clocks • A Floating Hospital • A Firewood Machine • Electrical Fluorescence • Luminous Rifle Sights • A Signal Flag-Staff • Watch-Dog Posts • A Prison Puzzle • Use of the Bee's Sting • Health-Plant • Straw Shoes • Preserving Ropes • A Fruit and Vegetable Press • A Petroleum Geyser • A New Joint for Woodwork • A Collapsing Perambulator • A Telescopic Vessel • A Signalling Street Lamp • A Test for Pepper

April
A Gum-Damper • Metal-Covered Thread • The North Sea Canal • A Handy Fire-Escape • Lighting Trains in Tunnels • A New Copying Apparatus • Keeping Cellars Cool • A Straw Villa • Leather Door-Mats • Tar as Fuel • A New Gem [hiddenite] • A Fire-Extinguishing Compound • A Self-Acting Water Sprinkler • Utilising Niagara • A Gelatine Hygrometer • Lithanode Accumulators • A New Tent • Crocodile-Skin Binding • Manganese-Steel Wire • An Easily-Opening Tin Can • Blades from Horse-Shoes • A Glacier Cavern • A Portable Ventilator • Duplicating MS. By Photography • Deep-Sea Photography • A New System of Gas Cooking

May
A Shadowless Hanging Lamp • The Power of a Whale's Tail • Sheet-Brass Bells • The Life of the Sun • The Phonophore Telegraph • Teaching a Dog to Read • A New Paper Binder • The Air-Brush • A Double-Seated Hansom • A Perspective Microscope • Spiders and Electric Lights • Natural Smelted Iron • Glass-Paper • A New Life-Buoy • Measuring Irregular Solids • A Telephone Palace • A Wooden Tower • A Pneumatic Speed Indicator • Timing Bicycles by Electricity • Puddling with Dry Clay • Mosquitoes and Trout • Preserving Iron by Electricity • A Belgian Bone Cave • Wood-Wool • A Table Heater • Prescribing by Cable • A Clock Night-Lamp • Projecting Microscopic Views • A Pouched Lion • An Explosive from Wood • Sponge in Water-Pipes • A Gigantic Flame • A New Brush-Holder

June
A Candle-Guard • Fluted Handles for Saucepans • Heating Cars by Gas • A Screw-Lift • Artificial Rubies • A Use for the Radiometer • The Hittite Inscriptions • A Hand Fire-Extinctor • A Steel Cab • Transparent Molten Iron • Imitating Saturn • The Maxim Guns • A Fireproof Ship • An Anti-Friction Conveyer • Tabasheer • Iron Houses • An Electrical Probe • Shale Illuminating Gas • A New Anchor • Glue for Belts • A Letter-Box Annunciator • A Red-Hot Telephone • A Handy Ewer • An Electric Bellows • A Line-Throwing Gun • Beating Time by Electricity • For House and Home • An Iron File-Handle

July
An Ingenious Blind-Rack • A Simple Knife-Cleaner • Writing on Glass • A Time-Checking Clock • Black Gold •A Safety Saddle • A Built-Up File • Paper from Bamboo • A Great Balloon • A Convertible School-Desk • The Tintometer • An Adjustable Thermometer • A Giant Crystal • A New Belt Joint • A Magneto-Electric Ball • A Water Spy-Glass • A New Pyrometer • Making Fine Glass Fibres • A Tambourine Clock • A Household Torch • A Bouquet Binder • A New Balance

August
An Electric Gas-Lighter • Echoes and Icebergs • Artificial Whetstones • Panics and Exits • An International Hydrometer • A Revolving Toaster • A Dumping Barge • Cream by Parcel Post • Electroplating Flowers • A Test for Olive Oil • A New Sleeping Berth • An Oven Heat Indicator • A Mixing Machine • A Pocket Accumulator • An Artist's Clinometer • A Paint Current Indicator • The Hydrophone • Pure Air • A Beetling Machine • Fish-Leather • New Inventions for Home Use • A Watchman's Tell-Tale

September
An Engraving Machine • A Dust Excluder • Turkey Read from Beans • Sea-Water for Streets • A Sawdust Non-Conductor • A Traveling Platform • An Electrical Trumpet • Earthquakes and Telegraphy • Colour Photography • A Drain-Gas Excluder • Freezing Mercury in Flame • A New Button-Hook • Vegetable Pearls • A New Glow Lamp • A Bicycle Shelter • Lead in the Brain • Aluminium-Steel • A Turbine Tennis Marker • Spodumene Crystals • Gas from Tar • A Knife in a Fish • Sofa Car Seats • A New Screw Wrench • Fire-Brick Paving • A New Remedy • Tuning by Telephone • A Spring Lock • Bat Guano • An Absolute Unit of Time • Adjusting Braces • Sea Telephony

October
A Gas-Extinguishing Clock • A Lighting Calendar • Hydrocarbon Paints • Ballit • A Telephone Siren • A Carpet-Sweeping Machine • A Cricket Scorer • The Southern Cross Pearl • Natural Gas and Insects • Dispersing Smoke • A New Diver's Helmet • Casting Metals on Lace • Pulp Pails • AnElectrical Safe Alarm • A Captive Kite Balloon • An Indicating Electric Bell • A Land Yacht • A New Submarine Boat • Moving Photographs • A Shingle House •A New Fruit

November
Electric Light in Omnibuses • A Gigantic Lathe • Paper from Tobacco Waste • An Electric Rock Drill • Transparent Lacquer • A Metal Rod Cleaner • A Lightning Observatory • Sugar-Making by Diffusion • A New Heat-Measurer • The Bathymeter • Vegetable Leather • Antipyrin and Pain • A Recording Anemometer • A Light-Ray Telemeter • Cutting Flowers • A Coke-Breaker • Japan Clover • A Vacuum Speed-Indicator • A Night Sight for Guns • A New Steel Gate • A Bicycle Ambulance • A Pocket Voltmeter • Bottles for Drains • Silver in Volcanic Ash • A Flat Lens • The Swinton Telephone • Flashing Oils by Electricity • Writing by Telegraph • A Safeguard Against Insects • Crystallising by Pressure

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