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Volume 89 — July-December, 1916
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| AERONAUTICS |
PAGE |
| Yachting in the Air |
22 |
| Aeroplane Dreadnoughts |
75 |
| Torpedoing a Submarine from an Aeroplane |
323 |
| The Wastage of Flying Machines in the Great War |
377 |
| War Progress in Flying |
523 |
| Testing the Air-Fighter's Nerve |
580 |
| Testing the Lifting Capacity of Balloon Fabric |
586 |
| Introducing Our First Anti-Aircraft Gun |
657 |
| The One-Man Aeroplane Which a German Boy Is Building |
695 |
| The Sentinels of the Sky Above the War Zone Trenches |
839 |
| Making the Aeroplane Generate Its Own Power for Wireless |
842 |
| Faster Than the Fastest Express Train |
865 |
| AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE |
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| An Instrument for Plucking Flowers |
19 |
| A Workshop on Every Farm |
55 |
| A Flower Bed on Top of a Rock |
56 |
| A Unique Garden-Hose Holder |
56 |
| Conelike Flower-Holder in a Brick Wall |
63 |
| Filling Trenches by Machine |
94 |
| The Milk-Can Trolley |
100 |
| Chickens Feed Themselves on the Run |
110 |
| Measuring Rainfall on the Farm |
160 |
| Uncle Sam Says Miraculous Wheats Are An Old Delusion |
166 |
| Threshing by Night Under Electric Light |
166 |
| Why the Gasoline Engine Keeps the Farmer Boy at Home |
175 |
| Hitching the Mower to the Farm Automobile |
182 |
| Accelerating the Fruit-Picker with a Picking Harness |
185 |
| A New Garden Duster Which Uses Dry Spray |
195 |
| Plants on National Forest Ranges Which Kill Cattle |
252 |
| A Giant Cypress Tree Village in Paris |
267 |
| A Painless Way of Killing Chickens |
294 |
| A Simple Home-Made Milking Stool |
299 |
| Chick Mash Box |
301 |
| Improving the Hog's Table Manners |
306 |
| Uses for Wire-Glass on the Farm |
308 |
| Raising Parasites to Fight Pests |
368 |
| The Floating Vegetable Gardens of Mexico |
384 |
| A Garden Tractor which Does Everything but Mind the Baby |
410 |
| Rolling, Harrowing and Seeding with One Machine. |
417 |
| A Weed Destroyer from a Spoon and Broom-Handle |
468 |
| A Portable Colony Poultry House |
476 |
| A Cozy Southern Farmhouse |
479 |
| An Easily Made Self-Locking Device for Barn-Doors |
614 |
| A Combined Farm Implement Shed and Machine-Shop |
640 |
| The Largest Duck Farm in the World |
662-663 |
| The Handiest Bam Ever Built |
675 |
| A Humane Method of Destroying Horses |
684 |
| Cleaning and Sorting Beans by Machinery |
686 |
| Teaching English Girls the Art of Milking |
738 |
| Branding Animals with a Clamp-Button Monogram |
747 |
| An Alarm-Clock Dinner Bell for Old Dobbin |
779 |
| An Automatic Grain-Valve to Prevent Waste |
780 |
| Tropical "Snow Drifts" of Cheesecloth |
819 |
| An Adjustable Steering Device for the Tractor |
832 |
| Sheep May Not Like This But It Saves Time |
855 |
| Separating the Rooster from His Crow |
868 |
| Warning Herdsmen of Storms |
893 |
| Are You Paying for Your Farm or Is It Paying for Itself |
893 |
| Indoor Tomato Plants Fifteen Feet High |
895 |
| Valuable Products from Cherry Pits |
895 |
| An Anchored Hen House |
912 |
| Plans of a Small Modern Dairy Barn |
960 |
| ASTRONOMY |
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| Curious Set of Features Are New Markings on Mars |
225 |
| Lost Comets |
504 |
| Is Jupiter Launching a Moon? |
678 |
| Studying the Stars with Mirrors |
908 |
| AUTOMOBILES AND ACCESSORIES |
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| Automobile Scale-Demonstrator |
6 |
| A Duck-Boat as an Automobile Top |
14 |
| Portable Electric Tire-Inflator |
26 |
| Keeping Things Cold in a Real Automobile Refrigerator |
27 |
| A Record Motor-Truck Load of Barrels |
27 |
| How One Ford Got Up in the World |
28 |
| How Automobiles Innocently Break Windows |
31 |
| How an Automobile Engine Tests Water-Mains |
48 |
| What Make of Car Is It? |
72 |
| The Possibilities of the Ford Chassis |
84-85 |
| Semaphore Signals for Automobiles |
114 |
| Using Gates to Lessen Danger from Truck-Trailers |
116 |
| Lapping a Scored Automobile Engine Cylinder |
124 |
| A Handy Hook for the Automobilist |
125 |
| Trend of Motor-Truck Design Toward Worm Drive |
159 |
| An Air-Propelled Automobile for Three Dollars |
173 |
| The Reinforced Concrete Principle Applied to Automobile Tires |
182 |
| Automobiles. Motor Trucks and Accessories |
186-189 |
| Moving Guns with an Electric Battery Crane-Truck |
231 |
| Automatic Flagmen to Warn Motor-Car Drivers |
242 |
| A Gasoline-Electric Automobile |
253 |
| Lubricating Your Automobile |
262 |
| Starting Your Automobile with Ether |
307 |
| This Automobile Seat Serves as a Waiting Room |
332 |
| Economizing Gasoline for Automobiles |
355 |
| A Shim for Adjusting Plain Bearings |
355 |
| Automobiles, Motor-Trucks and Accessories |
356-357 |
| Fifteen Motor-Trucks in One |
358 |
| When the Horse Tops It Over the Automobile |
360 |
| Railroad Treads for Motor-Trucks |
391 |
| Motor-Trucks to the Rescue in a Freight Embargo |
412 |
| An Electric Motor-Chair |
412 |
| A Six-Wheel Automobile |
430 |
| Wiring the Ford for Magneto and Battery |
442 |
| Pumping Gasoline to the Motor |
508 |
| The Motorcycle Machine-Gun |
529 |
| Automobiles, Motor-Trucks and Accessories |
540-543 |
| "Troubleshooting" at Night |
544 |
| A Motor-Truck That Equals Two |
545 |
| The Wiles of the Automobile Thief |
560 |
| A New Gasoline-Motor-Driven Road Roller |
561 |
| Motoring on Roller-Skates |
569 |
| A Six-Mile Trip Through a Sewer on a Motor-Cycle |
574 |
| The Sidewalk Coaster Becomes an Automobile |
592 |
| Making Automobile Wheels Track Correctly |
593 |
| Quickly Adjustable Automobile Fan-Belt Fasteners |
604 |
| Loading Small Luggage on the Outside of the Car |
605 |
| How Piston-Ring Defects Have Been Overcome |
605 |
| Lightening Automobiles with Aluminum |
606 |
| Operating the Oil-Pump of an Automobile by Valve Action |
615 |
| A Watch-Carrier for the Motorcycle Handlebar |
615 |
| Easily Attached Shock-Absorber |
618 |
| How to Avoid Excessive Oiling in Cylinders |
620 |
| Spark-plugs Tested Without Removal |
621 |
| A Washstand Light for Garages |
645 |
| Charging Weak Magnetos of Weak Automobiles |
672 |
| A New Brake Which Makes Trucks Safe |
685 |
| Rubber-Ball Fender to Protect Unwary Pedestrians |
685 |
| Recording the Vibrations of a Motor-Truck Spring |
688 |
| When You Leave the Automobile, Lock the Robes! |
699 |
| Automobiles, Motor-Trucks and Accessories |
700-703 |
| The Automobile Street Car |
724 |
| Breaking a Mountain Trail |
740 |
| A Motor-Wheel for the Railroad Velocipede |
742 |
| Automatic Word Signals for Automobiles |
746 |
| Timing an Automobile Race |
753 |
| Backing an Automobile into a Moving Garage |
755 |
| Constructing a Sidecar for a Bicycle or Motorcycle |
765 |
| Fillers for the Pedal Slots of Automobiles |
783 |
| Lubricating Automobile Spring Shackles and Bolts |
783 |
| Estimating the Speed of Passing Automobiles |
784 |
| Making a Sediment Pocket in Feed Line to Carburetor |
784 |
| Caring for Storage Batteries on Automobiles |
792 |
| Novel Method of Drive for Light Cycle-Cars |
806 |
| Timing Automobile Speed Demons |
806 |
| A Wonderful New Glass Which Cannot Be Shattered |
811 |
| An Automatic Safety Fender Sets the Brakes |
836 |
| A Floating Road for Automobiles |
864 |
| The Intelligent Motor Milk-Wagon |
869 |
| Twelve Cylinders or Six in One Car |
872 |
| Plowing Snow with Your Automobile |
882 |
| Automobiles, Motor-Trucks and Accessories 888 — |
891 |
| An Automobile Pump Drive from the Rear Wheel |
895 |
| The Tiniest Motorcycle to Be Used in the Army |
896 |
| Preaching the Gospel from an Automobile |
906 |
| Tank Trucks as Tenders to Submarines |
906 |
| Testing the Strength of an Ostrich |
907 |
| A British Motor-Bus Run on Coal Gas |
912 |
| A Motor-Driven Brake |
914 |
| Wire Wheels for Automobiles |
915 |
| Combination Lamp and Horn for the Motorcycle |
920 |
| Automobile Carbureter for Heavy Fuel Oils |
936 |
| BOATING |
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| Your Mainsail and the Wind |
49 |
| Forty Miles an Hour on the Water |
83 |
| How to Run a Motor-Boat |
112 |
| CHEMISTRY |
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| Asphyxiating a Fire with Sulphur |
884 |
| Producing the Coldest Cold |
916 |
| A Quickly Made Silver-Platng Powder |
937 |
| How to Handle Sulphuric Acid with Safety |
945 |
| CIVIL ENGINEERING |
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| The Destruction of the Exposition City |
8-11 |
| A Ticklish Moment |
29 |
| "Ironing Out" Earthquake Wrinkles in San Francisco |
31 |
| An Inverted Steam Hammer for Drawing Piles |
53 |
| Saving Hours in Handling New York Subway Dirt |
54 |
| An Excavator Which Walks |
61 |
| Electrifying the Clam-Shell Bucket |
87 |
| Making Water Pump Itself |
98 |
| A Damaged Lock Gate Repaired by Its Own Water |
234 |
| Lowering a Bridge Without Blocking the Traffic |
240 |
| Uncle Sam's New Dam at Elephant Butte |
259 |
| A Substantial Cableway Built from Scrap Material |
327 |
| The Senators' Subway |
328 |
| Bagging Rivet Heads with a Butterfly Net |
333 |
| Blowing Concrete into Place |
411 |
| Safeguarding the Sand Blaster |
418 |
| Building a Bank Around a Bank |
485 |
| Holding the Hudson at Bay |
537 |
| Road Construction Facts by the Wayside |
544 |
| Solving New York's Freight Problem |
546 |
| Ten Millions to Save Four Miles |
553 |
| Transforming a Beauty Spot into a Public Utility |
574 |
| A Bridge Five and One Half Miles Long |
583 |
| Strenuous Search for Durable Roads in a St. Louis Park |
672 |
| Giant Slabs of Marble to Commemorate Abraham Lincoln |
689 |
| Meerschaum as a Building Material in Spain |
689 |
| Boring Straight by Photography |
720 |
| Quebec's Disastrous Bridge |
728 |
| Cleaning Sewers from the Street |
838 |
| The Old-Fashioned Heavy Paving-Block Gives Place to a New Form |
844 |
| Taking the Temperature of a Dam |
866 |
| ELECTRICITY |
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| Welding Soft Metal to Hard |
17 |
| The Voice Typewriter |
65 |
| An Exciter for Electroscopes |
135 |
| Interference of Lighting Circuit by Static Electricity |
135 |
| Rejuvenating Electric Lamps |
135 |
| A Wet Battery from a Dry One |
135 |
| Electric Striking Mechanism for Mission Clocks |
137 |
| An Electrically Operated Device for Lighting Gas |
141 |
| How to Make an Attachment-Plug |
142 |
| A Model Electrical Hammer |
142 |
| How to Make an Electric Shaving-Mug |
143 |
| Testing Electric Lamps Quickly |
144 |
| Using Cartridge Shells for Electrical Contacts |
144 |
| A Hoop with a Guiding Hub |
152 |
| Perfuming and Cooling the Air with An Electric Fan |
175 |
| The King of New York s Lighting Spectacles |
177 |
| A Tool for Buffing, Drilling and Grinding Metal Surfaces |
192 |
| Toying with High Tension Currents |
248 |
| A Home-Made Edison Battery |
276 |
| A Clever Window Display |
277 |
| Five Examples of Alarm Work |
279 |
| Rectifying Alternating Current |
283 |
| Making an Electric Fire Alarm |
284 |
| Cutting Glass-Tubing by Electricity |
311 |
| A One-Eyed Mechanical Stenograptier |
335 |
| Why You Could Not Get Your Man on the Wire |
371 |
| An Electric Motor-Chair |
412 |
| A Convenient Arrangement for Turning on the Hall Light |
442 |
| Wiring the Ford for Magneto and Battery |
442 |
| A Simple Way to Construct a Ten-Ampere Shunt |
443 |
| Controlling Temperature and Humidity at the Same Time |
444 |
| Electric Substitute for the Latch-key |
444 |
| Making an Induction Coil |
446 |
| Magnet Winder |
446 |
| Dry Cells and Their Voltage |
446 |
| Utilizing Broken Marble Pieces |
446 |
| How to Rid Your Yard of Cats |
447 |
| To Stop the Milk Thief |
447 |
| A Simple Primary Coil |
452 |
| A Heat-Resisting Socket for High Wattage Lamps |
511 |
| Pocket-Flashlight Distress-Signals |
520 |
| A Hand-Magnet That Lifts Fifteen Times Its Own Weight |
536 |
| The Czar of the Power-House |
555 |
| A New Electric Cloth-Cutter for Small Shops |
564 |
| The Electrical Scrub-Woman — Brainless but Efficient |
566 |
| Small Electric Pump for Draining Seepage from a Cellar |
567 |
| A Voting Machine for Congress |
582 |
| Flood Lighting Niagara |
584 |
| The Nic:ht Eyes of the Coast Artillery |
586 |
| A Warning to Fishermen |
590 |
| A Photographic Printing-Box for Use with Electric Current |
601 |
| A Simple Tracing Method for Electrical Draftsmen |
606 |
| Tapping Field Telephone Wires |
622 |
| Tracing Initials on Tools with Electricity |
632 |
| Saving the Picture Show with a New Rheostat |
633 |
| A Combination Front and Back Door Alarm-Bell |
634 |
| Electric Burner for Making Storage-Battery Connections |
634 |
| To Change a Gas Lamp into an Electric Light |
635 |
| Lighting an Oil-Stove with an Alarm-Clock |
635 |
| A Simple Electrical Device for Purifying Water |
638 |
| Lifting Street Cars with a Powerful Electric Hoist |
673 |
| Electric Hand Lantern Costs Less than a Kerosene Burner - |
681 |
| Electric Ranges Are Becoming Popular |
681 |
| Electrolytic Extraction of Gold from Black Sand |
680 |
| Look Out Perhaps the Man You're Talking to Wears a Detectaphone |
687 |
| Protecting the Telephone Operator |
706 |
| Telegraphing Through the Ocean |
711 |
| Toys That Obey Your Voice |
718 |
| Miniature Magnet-Propelled Ships |
757 |
| Hearing Your Voice Through Your Bones |
142 |
| Manhole Ventilated with Electric Fan |
748 |
| Reducing the Furnace Man to a Mere Push-Button |
751 |
| A Magic Wand Which Changes Cold Water into Hot Almost Instantly |
752 |
| The Electric Thief-Catcher |
756 |
| How Electricity and Temperature Affect a Watch |
761 |
| A Hallowe'en Chamber of Horrors |
777 |
| An Improvised Coil Winder for Electrical Apparatus |
787 |
| A Home-Made Fuse for a Small Battery Current |
793 |
| Amateur Trench FJcctricians |
794 |
| A Danger Signal Used to Direct Attention Overhead Perils |
829 |
| An Extension Reel for Electric Lamps |
843 |
| An Electrically Heated Foot-Board for the Policeman |
683 |
| Determining the Intensity of Illumination by a New Measuring System |
913 |
| Making an Electrically Heated Soldering Iron |
947 |
| An Electric Burglar Alarm Attached toa Door-Lock |
947 |
| A Dead End Switch of the Multiple-Point Type |
948 |
| A Salt Water Polarity Indicator Made from a Burned Out Fuse |
952 |
| An Electrically-Operated Recording Weather Vane |
952 |
| Operating Furnace Checks and Drafts by Electricity |
954 |
| HOUSEKEEPING MADE EASY |
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| An Improved Vegetable Slicer |
107 |
| Housekeeping Made Easy |
111 |
| Why Young Girls Don't Leave Home |
232 |
| Keeping Food Without Ice |
293 |
| Make Your Own Lazy-Betty |
299 |
| Improving a Towel-Roller |
301 |
| String Holder and Cutter |
306 |
| Handy Folding Kitchen Tables |
309 |
| Housekeeping Made Easy |
372 |
| Cleaning Gloves Economically with Benzine |
409 |
| Converting Sun-Parlor into Bedroom |
427 |
| A Towel Holder |
458 |
| A Convenient Shoe-Rack |
459 |
| An Easily Constructed Holder for the Broom |
468 |
| A Screen Door-check |
477 |
| How Do You Sit? |
551 |
| Bathing in Your Trunk |
557 |
| Housekeeping Made Easy |
558 |
| Using the Steam Radiator to Remove Wall-Paper |
564 |
| The Electric Scrub-Woman — Brainless but Efficient |
566 |
| Trundling Your Washing-Machine on Wheels |
566 |
| Why Isn't This Used Instead of Hooks and Eyes? |
575 |
| Repairing Worn Wheels of a Carpet-Sweeper |
601 |
| A Scheme for Keeping Pictures Hanging Straight |
608 |
| A Clothes-Rack foi Use Indoors and Outdoors |
603 |
| Protecting the Gas Range with a Wind-Shield |
618 |
| Turning tfie Stationary Tub into an Electric Washing Machine |
647 |
| Electric Ranges Are Becoming Popular |
681 |
| Housekeeping Made Easy |
690 |
| Water-Heating Garbage Burner |
698 |
| Doing the Family Washing in Your Rocking Chair |
738 |
| The "Permanent Wave" of a Woman's Hair and Its Secret |
743 |
| Reducing the Furnace Man to a Mere Push-Button |
731 |
| A Comfortable Electric Foot-Warmer Pad |
752 |
| A Foot-Warmer Attachment for a Radiator |
761 |
| How to Straighten the Crooked Straws of a Broom |
775 |
| A Heater for Use Over the Flame of a Gas Jet or Kerosene Lamp |
855 |
| Housekeeping Made Easy |
858 |
| Removing Old Starch from Clothes by a Malt Extract Bath |
913 |
| HOW THE WAR IS BEING FOUGHT |
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| War Pictures |
32 |
| When the Fighting Man Dreams |
53 |
| Locating Guns by Delicate Earthquake-Detectors |
178 |
| Submarine Destroyers |
180 |
| War Pictures |
208 |
| Experimenting with Liquid Fire |
208 |
| Firing with Heavy Artillery at an Enemy You Can't See |
226 |
| War Pictures |
336 |
| The Wastage of Flying Machines in the Great War |
377 |
| "Shooting" a Photograph with a Pistol-Camera |
408 |
| A Modern War Relic |
425 |
| Fitting Penholders to Crippled Hands |
435 |
| War Pictures |
487 |
| How London Cares for Soldiers' Babies |
502 |
| How the Firing of Heavy Guns Affects Animals |
576 |
| Detecting Enemy Submarines from a Ship's Look-Out |
579 |
| INVENTIONS TO MAKE LIFE EASY |
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| Adjustable Kettle-Cover |
113 |
| Hammer for Onc-Armed Man |
113 |
| Handling the Cord of Electric Irons |
113 |
| At Last! A Lock for Slipping Rubbers |
113 |
| A New Way of Directing the Breeze of a Fan |
113 |
| A Suit-Shaker Which Will Not Clog |
113 |
| An Adjustable Golf-Tee Board |
114 |
| Combined Penholder and Blotter |
114 |
| Saw Cuts Square Hole |
114 |
| Semaphore Signals for Automobiles |
114 |
| Skinning the Slippery Eel |
114 |
| Why Fall Down in Your Bath-Tub? |
114 |
| At Last! A Machine Which Irons Skirts Without a Murmur |
184 |
| Keeping Cool with a Fan Driven by a Hot-Air Engine |
246 |
| A Fancy Shoe-Lace Cover |
270 |
| A Heater for the Parlor Lamp |
270 |
| Pipe Loaded from Stem |
270 |
| Automatic Roller Bearing |
270 |
| A Spoon That Can't Slip |
270 |
| Spout Attachment for Bottles |
270 |
| Aluminum Billiard Cue |
271 |
| Automobiling with a Bicycle |
271 |
| Beating the Dentist to It |
271 |
| A Cure for Butter Fingers |
271 |
| Facilitating Speed in Writing |
271 |
| A Swatter for High-Fliers |
271 |
| Shoes of Esparto Straw which Outwear Leather |
375 |
| Escaping the Barber's Fingers |
432 |
| Collapsible Tooth-Brush Case |
432 |
| Keeping the Baby's Bottle Just Right |
432 |
| A Pipe with a Cleaning Wick |
432 |
| A Detachable Massage Brush |
432 |
| A Mechanical Oyster-Opener |
432 |
| Holding Asparagus in the Can |
433 |
| Adding Dignity to Condensed Milk Cans |
433 |
| Putting Ejchaust Gases to Work |
433 |
| Reducing Eye-Strain |
433 |
| Handle and Cover for Milk Bottles |
433 |
| MECHANICAL ENGINEERING |
|
| Revolving Portable Elevator |
165 |
| Coaling a Liner with An Elevator |
206 |
| A Giant Grinder Which Goes to Its Work |
240 |
| How Heat Is Measured with the Eye |
330 |
| New Kind of Lawn Sprinkler |
332 |
| Loading Guns by Pneumatic Tube |
334 |
| The Paving Blocks of Paris |
352 |
| Sorting and Packing Apples by Machinery |
363 |
| A Low Water Alarm for Boilers |
370 |
| Locomotive Runs Three Hours on Charge from Boiler Plant |
370 |
| A Typewriter Made Especially for the One-Armed |
371 |
| A Locomotive that Burns Pulverized Coal |
376 |
| Keeping Watch on the Chimney |
378 |
| The "Spinning Whejpl" Gun |
397 |
| One of the Pranks of the San Francisco Earthquake |
416 |
| Why Not Make Rain Work? A Chance for a Rain Motor |
419 |
| Smoothing Sidewalks by Machine |
426 |
| The Preeminence of American Inventive Ingenuity |
427 |
| Belt Shifter Protects Workmen |
434 |
| A Curious Clock Built on a New Principle |
511 |
| Putting Wheels Under Workmen |
514 |
| Harnessing the Sun |
513 |
| A Machine-Shop in a Diving-Bell |
577 |
| Preventing Ships from Rolling with Fly Wheels |
591 |
| Cleaning Crown Bottle-Corks in a Portable Hopper |
592 |
| A High-Speed Bit That Bores Without Choking |
647 |
| Let a Puff of Air Do It |
664 |
| Air Is Stronger Than Arms |
665 |
| Dummies That Dance and Play |
666 |
| Dual Power. Portable Hoisting Machine of Compact Design |
674 |
| A Modern "Newspaper Maker" |
676 |
| A Simple Instrument Which Measures the Height of a Tree |
696 |
| To Protect the Fingers of the Woodworker |
705 |
| Combined Velocipede and Hobby-Horse |
715 |
| Felling Trees Automatically with a Mechanical Swordfish |
715 |
| A Water Curtain Used on a Heating Furnace |
726 |
| The Inventor of the Steam Engine Was Interested in Gim-Cracks |
739 |
| Saving Gold and Silver on the Vacuum-Cleaner Principles |
750 |
| This Ice-Cutting Machine Takes the Place of Eight Horse-Teams |
810 |
| Preventing Boiler Troubles by Mechanical Cleaning |
811 |
| An Adjustable Steering Device for the Tractor |
832 |
| A Mechanical Printer for Facsimile Letters |
836 |
