Volume 1, Issue 1build
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Features
“The Dollar Medical Shop”
Preserving Eggs
Night Sky–October and November
Improvement of the Ohio River
The Soil as a Filter
The Ticking of the Clock
Drying Tomatoes
Bag Holder for Trucks
An Improved Carpet Stretcher
An Improved Keyhole Guard
Egg Register and Tester
Fire Escape
The Relation of Domestic Chimneys to the Construction of Roofs
Some Old Warwick Houses
The Rotary Iron Jail
Westward the Squirrel
Tests of Stained Glass
Improved Chimney Cap
Photographic Notes
Intensifer for Negatives
The New Croton Aqueduct
Agee's Improved Corn Planter
General George B. McClellan
Improved Tent
A New Link Movement for Reversible Engines
The Nordenfelt Submarine Boat
Slag Wool
Correspondence
A Paper Chimney
Liquid Fuel in California
The Star in Andromeda
At the Interior
Porphyry Dyke
Paper in Tonkin
Business and Personal
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Miscellaneous Inventions
Engineering Inventions
New Books and Publications
Agricultural Inventions
Index of Inventions
For which Letters Patent of the United States were Granted October 20, 1885. and Each Bearing that Date [See Note at End of List about Copies of These Patents.]
Notes and Queries
Hints to Correspondents