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Victorian Science & Invention Roundups:
"The Gatherer" 1880

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December (1879)
The Hydromotor • Window-Cleaning and Ventilation • An Inexpensive Ventilating System • A New Self-Acting Invalid Carriage • Watching the Circulation of Blood • Self-Acting Bed-Rest for Invalids • The Flexible Shaft • Cutting Glass with Scissors • Molecular Electric Light • The Pottery-Tree • Fresh-painted Rooms • Postal Certificates for Letters • Water for Nothing • Electricity and Plants • Napoli’s Pantograph

January
Rain-Water Percolator • Novelties in Lighting • Tisley’s Harmonograph • A Doctor’s Use of the Carrier Pigeon • Signalling by Illuminated Steam • The Whistling Buoy • Fireless Locomotives • A Practical Calculating Machine • An Automatic Ventilator • A Little-Known Test for Health • A New Method of Raising Sunken Ships • A Steam-Sledge • An Invulnerable Ship • A Salt Extractor • Can We See Sound? • A New Disinfectant • Reading by Electric Light • A New Spring Mattress • Deprez’s Electric Motor• An Electric Station-Sign for Railway Trains • Artificial Onyx • A Resonant Tuning-Fork • A New Industry [manufacturing peat charcoal] • Ice Made by Means of Ether • Of Interest to English Mariners

February
Tempering Metals in Vacuo • A New Desk and Bench • Steam Tram-Cars • A Strong Electro-Magnet • A Price-Balance • An Automatic Fire-Lighter • Making the Diamond • Cats as Carriers • Detaching Ships’ Boats • Raising Sunken Ships by Balloons • The Various Kinds of Milk • Novel Uses of the Electric Light • The Cable Railway at Gelsbach • Explosion of a Diamond • Dephosphorising Iron • The Proposed Canal Between the Sea of Azoff and the Caspian Sea • A Cure for Catarrh • Paper Sheathing for Ships • A Gas and Water Geyser • Automatic Postal Indicator • A Market for Useless Fungi • Soot-Water for Roses • The Luray Cavern • Edible Ferns • A New American Saw

March
Photographing Under Water • Sugar from Rags • A New Road Locomotive • The Dust of the Street • An Ear-Fitting Telephone • New Sapphire Mines • Metalline • A New Photographic Process • A Geographical Game • Captive Light • A New Remedy for Scurvy • A Speaking Machine • Phosphorescent Photographs • A New Bouyant Life-Saving Rocket • A Recording Compass • A Rapid Cure for Colds • Signalling Lighthouses • New Electric Lamps

April
New Commercial Plants • A Glycerine Barometer • For the Benefit of the Milkmaid • A Mechanical Watch-Dog • Crystalline Forms in Canada Balsam • Coloured Photographs • The Pedometer • Telegraphing by Dynamo-Electric Currents • Perini’s Planetarium • Heating Wheel-Tires by Gas-Jets • Coral Houses • Natural Cement • Ground Honey • Extraordinary Length of Hair • A New Balance Supply-Valve for Cisterns • A Spark Arrester • Artificial Diamonds • Storing Electricity • Photographing in Leather • An Electric Railway • How to Wear the Life-Preserver • Novel Use of the Telephone

May
Copying Drawings by Electric Light • The Audiphone for Deaf Ears • Improving the Auditorium • A Double-Bladed Turnstile • An Electrical Test of Death • Narcotic Nutmegs • Substitute for Coffee • An Ice-Breaking Machine • Magnetic Fishes • A Silver Fossil • Railway Alarm Signal • The Electric Light in Mansions • Fare Tell-Tale for Omnibuses • An Earthquake Detector • Water-Resisting Cement for Glass • A New Actinometer • The Electric Light and Vegetation • The Pyrophone • An Electronic Post for Paris • A Novel Swimming Machine • A New Diving Helmet • Porpoise Oil

June
Nickel Bronze • A New Milk Cooler • A Simple Burglar Alarm • Seeing by Wire • Thread from Wood • A New Anaesthetic • An Electrical Alarm for Level Crossings • Steaming Fiery Mine • Deadening the Noise of Workshops • A Simple Telephone Receiver • Electricity and Gardening • How to Clean a Toilet Sponge • A Water-Ballast Yacht • Ladder-Tape for Venetian Blinds • Spence’s Metal • Electric Lighting • Sugar from Corn • A New Flower-Sprinkler • The Eye as a Photometer • A Safety-Ship

July
A Corkless Oil-Can • A Talking Picture-Book • A Ship-Railway Across the Isthmus • A New Eye-Shade • Glass from Bones • Tent for Camping Out • Slag Cement • A Self-Acting Ventilator • A New Way to Buoy Ships • Hardening Small Tools • Protecting Trees from Insects • A Valuable Glue • New Hose Carriage • Blasting Saltpetre • Artificial Stained Glass • A Canal Through France • Making Clothes Fireproof • The Sea Messenger • An Electric Furnace • A Cooling Coverlet • Edible Earth

August
A Pocket Life-Belt • A Simple Test-Paper • Driving a Sewing Machine by Dog-Power • A New Petroleum Lamp • A Novel Thermoscope • A Volcano in a Lake • The Arlberg Railway • The Cleansing of Sponges • An Electric Wheel • Shakespeare Clubs • Double Boats

September
A Boot and Shoe Ventilator • Picture-Printing • Solar Service • A Perpetual Calendar Ink-Stand • Reporting by Telephone • International Postage Stamps • Another Domestic Motor • Meat-Bread • Electric Lights on Buoys • A Fruit Preserver • Solid Bromine • A Water-Filtering Tank • An Iron Farm-Steading • Electricity on Board Ship • The Hudson River Tunnel • The Zoogyroscope • A Handy Shower-Bath • Digging by Steam • Imitations of Stained Glass

October
A Simple Audiphone • An Electrical Fire-Damp Indicator • Neptunite • A Self-Leveling Ship’s Berth • Electrical Insects • Balloon Photographs • Pneumatic Clocks in Paris • Cow-Tree Rubber • The Zodiacal Light • A New Photographic Positive • A Price-Indicator for Gas Consumers • Poisonous Pans • Oxydised Iron • An Electrical Type-Setter • Ship’s Message Bottle • Galene Plating • Floatable Mail_Boxes • New Uses of Compressed Air • A New Cereal • A New Waterproofing Process • A New Way to Warm Railway Carriages • The Czar’s Yacht [The Livadia]

November
Electrical Railways for New York • Chicken Cholera • The Resonator • A Marine Electric Light • A Variable Lens • Photographing an Express Train • Edison’s Ore Separator • The Human Walk • A Telephone for the Deaf • Earthen Filtering Plates • A New Picture-Hanger • A Diffusive Lantern • Making Fern Pictures • Light for the Studious • The Electric Light Under the Sea • A New Photographic Developer • Heveenoid • Japanese Air-Cushions • A New Drawing-Pen • Recording Solar Radiation • To Cultivate Water-Lilies • A Simple Spy-Glass

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