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SA Builders
April 1886
Volume 1
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Issue 6build
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Features
The Hoboken Inclined Cable Railway
A Disinfecting Commode
How to Strengthen the Memory
Combined Plow, Cultivator, and Harrow
Adjustable Double Bedstead
Trellis for Garden Crops
Axial Change of the Earth
Lumber Drier
A Fortune for a Patent
The Causes of Sudden Death
The use of Natural Gas at Pittsburg
The Rhododendron
Moseley Reversed Pressure Door and Gate Spring
Farquhar's Burglar Proof Sash Lock
The Fossil Wood of the West
Ornamental Pressed Wood Blocks for Builders
The Wear of Window Cords
Chapman Valves and Hydrants
Spring Hammer Saw Set
Combination and Pipe Wrenches
Folding and Adjustable Handle Draw-Knife
A One Thousand Foot Tower
The Cathedral of Granada
The uses of Corrugated Tubing
Fire from Steam Pipes
Common Sense Water Front Tubular Boiler
Stanley's Patent Floor Plane
Vulcanized India-Rubber for Mechanical and Manufacturing Purposes
Discovery of a New Nebula by Photography
Combustion of Copper and Nitrogen
The Origin of Fires
Design for a Summer Garden House
Roofs that are made to Last
Design for a Monument, by Klotz
Oldest Habitations in America
Switching by Horse Power
Concerning Ourselves
Oil Fuels
Patents
A Country Residence
Bruce Price
Architect's Level
To New Subscribers
Caligraph Writing Machines
Finishing and Filling Wood
Earth as a Purifier
Improvement in Stained Glass Manufacture
Rawdon House, Hoddesden, Etc.
House Drainage
The Brussels National Exhibition
American Silk Manufacture
House at Sevenoaks
The Steamer Violet
House at Reigate
Cardboard Enamel
Improvement in Gas Pumping Engines
A New Power Pipe Cutting and Threading Machine
Composite Clinker Concrete Pipes
Business and Personal
New Books and Publications
Notes and Queries
The New “Burgtheater” in Vienna
Prehistoric Dentistry
A New Island in the South Seas
Pratt's Multiform Screw Driver
Asbestos Flooring Felt and Roofing