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SA Builders
June 1886
Volume 1
,
Issue 8build
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Features
A Suburban Cottage
Opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London
An Improved Sash Frame Pulley
School Days
The Indestructibility of Force
The "Champion" Keyless Locks
Endolithic Marble
The Perception of Pale Color Tints
The Charter's Gas Engine
A Country House at Orange, N. J.
Close of our First Volume
Patents
Design for a Stone Cottage
Chinese Architecture in Chicago
Healthy Cottages
Prize Design for a New Facade, Cathedral of Milan
Passaic City, New Jersey
Frozen Lumber Will Shrink
Phosphatic Slag as a Fertilizer
How to Avoid Premature Old Age
Cleaning Stonework
Frog's Skin Grafts
Grove Farm House
Concrete Construction
The Ordinary Vest a Poor Lung Protector
The Laying out of Garden Paths
The Nautical Arnea, or Aquatic Theater
Ink for Type Writer Ribbons
A Labor Paper on Intimidation
Sinking Shafts by Freezing
Novel Mining Machinery
Wooden Pavements
Steam and Gas Engines
New Club House of the St. Louis Jockey Club
The Electrical Tramp Protector
The Velocity of Meteors
Natural History Notes
The Paris Metropolitan Railway
Novel Mode of Feeding Lambs
How to Make Duck Impervious to Water
Cost or Different Kinds of Walls
Mistakes in School Architecture
The Sense of Smell
New Schoolhouse Design
Cottage Lodge
Boxwood
Products from a small Garden
A Remarkable Iron Roof
On the Coagulation of Blood
Lincrusta-Walton
Prize for the Best Method of Preventing Blasting Accidents in Coal Mines
Cheap Method of Heating Factories
Smoke Testing of Drains
The Mullein Plant
To Restore Gloss to a Silk Hat
Roofing Paint
Arsenic in Wall Paper
Lime in a Water Pipe
Rum Blossoms
Ventilation
Asbestos Cement Felting
Cork Cloth
Perille's Safety Catch
A New Lamp Shade
Apparatus for Examining Engravings
Timber: Its Growth, Seasoning, and Preparation for Use
Thomas Blashill
Design for a Church
Earth Currents in the Ben Nevis Observatory Telegraph Cable
Church at Frankfurt
New Books and Publications
Notes and Queries
Business and Personal
Valuable Books for Architects, Builders, Etc.
Index