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"The Gatherer" 1889
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December (1888)
The Graphophone • Cellular Clothing • Some Novel Christmas Cards • Milk Jelly • The Excelsior Geyser • Safety Stirrups • A Nursery Yacht • A Collapsible Lifeboat • A Singular Phenomenon • The Jupiter Light • Petroleum as Poison •For the New Year • A Group of Novelties • An Ironing Machine • A Pneumatic Gun • A Curtain Stretcher

January
A Crockery Drying Rack • The Welfare of London • A Singular Mirage • Compressed Fuel • Book-Holder for Invalids • A Forked Palm • Curious Lightning-Strokes • A Railway to Bokhara • An Oxygen Furnace •Some Household Novelties • A Musical Paper-Knife • Making Dark Rays Visible • A Safe Door-Chain • A Dry Battery • The Eye as a Source of Light • An Automatic Water-Still • A Portable Saw • Purifying Zinc • A Buried Amphitheatre • A Rocket Camera • Storing the Nile • Discovering Leaks in Ships • Fire-Drawings • Storing Clean Rain-Water • Making Light • A New Hurdle

February
The Diver's Telephone • A Chemical Island •Metallising Wood • Light for the Microscope • A cure for Cinders or Dust in the Eye • Seamless Tubes • An Electric Crane • The Forth Bridge • Bellite • A Self-Pouring Tea-Pot • A Large Globe • Spectro-Telegraphy • Ramie • A Human Scale • A Substitute for Glass • The Magic Chain • Peat for Iron Smelting • A New Gas • A Soap Battery • A Dressing-Case Camera • The Sultan's Dog-Cart • The Duration of Lightning

March
An Automatic Door • The Great Stave of Eleven • The Decimation of the Osprey • Lettering Ivory • A Phosphorescent Storm • Egyptian Mummy Portraits • The Sunflower Lamp • An Improved Minim Glass • Electric Smelting •An Optical Illusion • The Weather Plant • The "Wells" Light • Colour and Words • A New Copying Apparatus • A Miniature Type-Writer • A Load Indicator • Across Greeland • A Natural Battery • Photographing a Spark • An Invisible Lacquer • Electrified Soap Bubbles • The Electric Light in Dredging • An Automatic Telephone Exchange • Folding Spectacles • Cocoanut Oil in Sugar-Making

April
The Button Telephone • A New Sash-Fastener • The Electric Light in Ice • A Collapsible Boat • A Propelling Canal • Making Diamond Dust • Felling Trees by Electricity • A New Gas Regulator • A Suspended Berth • A Paraffin Photometer • The Obolette • An Adjustable Drawing Table • The Electric Light and Ambulances

May
A Darning Weaver • A Straight Railway • A Perpetual Calendar • For Walkers and Standers • Compensation Braces • A Safety-Rope Lift • The Nicaragua Canal • The Preservation of Pianos • Agatised Wood • A New Library Indicator • Antiseptic Ventilation • A Simple Binder • An Engine-Room Telegraph • An Electric Blow-Pipe • The Bald-Headed Chimpanzee • A New Mincing Machine • Sunlight and Trees • A Reflector for Candles • A Simple Knife-Cleaner • India-Rubber Pavement • Water-Gas as a Power • Buoyant Woodite • Meteoric Diamonds • A New Dust-Collector • A Giant Tree

June
ASelf-Acting Fire-Alarm • Cocoa • A Movable Scientific Station • How to Go to the Paris Exhibition • Three Useful Novelties • A Signalling Fog-Horn • Mr. Stanleyh's March • An Electric ater • A Telegraph Rocket • Magnetising by Light • A Nib-Ejecting Pen-Holder • To Keep Away Moth • The Telephonograph • Spring Traces • Sanitary Whiting • Petroleum Soap • Refrigerator Barges • A Pressure Filter • The Meldometer • A Portable Tachometer • Photographing a Coast • Protecting Propellers

July
Parlour Gymnastics • A Submarine Ram • A Hybernating Swallow • A Self-Countersinking Screw • Another Music Turn-Over • A New Farm Steamer • Waxed Paper Bags • Steel Props for Mines • Floor-Deafening and Health • A Magnesium Burner • A Sand and Salt Shedder • A Japanese Plum • Sugar-Cane Paper • A Cab Signal • A Word-Building Slate • A Light Pyrometer • What Is Lanoline? • A Vehicle for Liquids • An Optical Electrical Lamp •Printing Ink from Cotton Waste • The Blond Race of Palestine • A Pen Extractor • Non-Actinic Electric Light • New Silkworms • Tubular Solder • A Sawdust Filter • A Thermo-Barometer • A Telegraphic Typewriter

August
An Elastic Horseshoe • A Self-Supporting Photograph Mount • The Dark Flash of Lightning • The Telautograph • An Automatic Chair • A Makeshift Double Blind • A Curtain-Rod Holder • Elastic Sandstone • Casting in Steel and Bronze • A Spirit-Launch • A New Tubular Lock • The Buddhist Mounds • A Convenient Window • Measuring a Wave • A Lethal Muzzle for Dogs • Electric Tanning • A Benzine Carriage • A Celluloid Slide-Rule • Singing Sands • Clearing Rivers • The Blue of the Sky • A Pocket Lamp • A Fire-Damp Meter • Gas as a Cautery • A New Garden Sprinkler

September
The Leona Extincteur • A Pad for Violinists • The Eiffel Tower in Science • The Linotype • The Bell Mountain • The Strawsoniser • Flowers and Health • A Safety Step-Ladder • The Great Terella • A Safety Purse • Steel Wheels • A Bungalow Village • Poisonous Tin Plates • A Steam Lifeboat • Expanding Hoops by Electricity • Curing Damp Walls • The Brighton Exhibition • Electricity of the Heart • Frozen Milk • A Paraffin-Oil Engine • The Humming-Bird and Mantis • A Cattle Weigher • A Message Cabinet

October
A Wind-Engine • Another New Step-Ladder • Another Remedy for Hydrophobia • A New Grinding Mill • A Manganese Meteorite • For Holes in Wood • A New Opiate • An Ocean Observatory • An Electric Coal-Digger • A Potato Lifter • Dalura Wood Decoration • The Tele-Inductor • A Parlour Will'o'the-Wisp • Artificial Coffee Beans • A Sanitary House • A Farm Railway • Dark Lightning • An Elastic Wheel • A New Sewing Machine • A Manual Corn-Thresher • Marinated Mackerel • An Automatic Nail-Maker • Indicating Calipers • Locomotives as Fire-Engines • A Life Barometer • Ocean Floats

November
A Watch Galvanometer • Natural Spheres • Home Reading • Eucalyptus Honey • An Employees' Time-Recorder • An Electrical Slide-Rule • Terra-Cotta Lumber • Full Fire-Pails • An Electric Weighing Machine • The Potato as a Soap • Buhach • Apple-Grafts on Old Pear Trees • A Portable Telegraph Office • Mexican Cave-Dwellers • A Hydraulic Railway • The Mimeograph • A Lubricating Axle-Box • An Alternate Current-Motor • A New Wire Mat • Iron Cement • An Automatic Lamp • A New Method of Painting Porcelain • Giants of the Forest • A Public Safety Signal • The Magnetic Ore Sifter • An Electrical Range • Rolling Metal Liquid

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