SA Builders

February 1886

Volume 1, Issue 4build

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Features

The St. Mary's Falls Canal

Engineering by the Ancients

Two Forms of Liquefied Air

A Novel Clock

Improvement in Car Seats Wanted

Sixty Ton Crane

Navigable Balloons

Country Stores and Dwellings

Durability of Building Stone

Patents

Back Numbers

Improved Plate Bending Machine

A New Steam Carriage

The Largest Elevator in the World

The Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

American Gems and Precious Stones

Constructing, Ventilating, and Cooling Cellars

Crank Pin for Steam Engines

The Chinch Bug

Cleaning out Waste Pipes

The Treatment of Frostbitten Fingers and Toes

A Method for the Purification of Commercial Carmine

John S. Adriance

Burmah

Artificial Diamonds

Enameling Cast Iron Ware

Railway Electric Lights

Steel Spring Motors

The Duplex Tide Wheel

Indian Fish-Egg Food

Boring for Natural Gas at Cleveland, Ohio

Greenhouses and Conservatories

Focal Distance of Spectacle Glasses

Eatables on Ocean Steamers

The Nutmeg Plant-Myristica

F. L. S.

How Bees Predict the Weather

John Henry Dallmeyer

The Amber and Meerschaum Industry of Austria

The Architecture of a Bone

Isolating Pavilions for Contagious Diseases

The Phylloxera in Sandy Soil

Waterproof Clothing

Natural Gas Fuel

Testing Machines

Show Box Cover

Milk Cooler

The Micrometer

Metallic Plastering Surface

Ancient Roadways

Slovenly Reading

Blotter

Process of and Apparatus for Blocking Ice

Cost of the Great Suspension Bridge between New York and Brooklyn

Hydraulic Mining to be Regulated

Bradford Technical School

Cremation

Health and Education

The Cycloidotrope

Geo. M. Hopkins

Improved Sand Blast Machine

Power of an Ocean Wave

Buoyant Propeller for Steamboats

Draught Device for Vehicles

Automatic Pulley Turning Attachment for Lathes

Improvement in the Manufacture of Mineral Wool

M. Bartholdi in America

Underground Wires

Our First Numbers

Our Second Numbers

Can I Obtain a Patent ?

To the Reader

Art Study

Simple Photo-Enlarging Apparatus

Hereford Cathedral

Efflorescence on Brick Walls

The U. S. War Steamer Chicago

Memory versus Progress

Waiting to be Invited

Fingarry, Stirlingshire

Asphalted Jute

The Mercuric Developer

Henry J. Newton

Engineering Inventions

Miscellaneous Inventions

Business and Personal

Agricultural Inventions

New Books and Publications

Notes and Queries

Index of Inventions