Volume 2, Issue 4build
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Features
Castellated Chapel of Amboise
A New Process of Welding
A Test of Spiral Screw Drivers
Patents
Useful Hints to Intending Builders
Graining as a Decoration
Our Sheet of Details
Colors for Woodwork
Galvanic Flannel
Modified Swiss Cottage
Our First Volume
Drawings and Contributions
A Cottage at Washington Heights, N. Y.
A Cottage at Bridgeport, Conn
Improved Carpenter's Gauge
Baldness
French Sanitary Devices for Dwellings
Knots in Lumber
Crater Lake, Oregon
Wages in the Building Trades in New Work
Masonry Conversion Tables
Greenhouses for Forcing Vegetable Crops
A Simple Method of Fixing Crayon Drawings on Paper
A General Service Barn
History of the Chimney
Resonance in Rooms
General Contracting
Copying Drawings with the Camera
Country House at Hietzing, near Vienna
St. Ignatius College, San Francisco, Cal
Tests of Iron
Sunflowers for Fuel
Retaining Walls
Wrought Iron Columns
Venetian Pavements
Shop Fronts in London
Fast Track Laying
Law Applied to Smoke and Noise
Essence of Law
Lime
Slate Bricks, Tiles, and Pipes
Rendering Brickwork Waterproof
Design for a School-House
Early use of Concrete
Building Organization in France
A Well Question
A Novel Foundation
A $3,500 Cottage
Comforts in small Houses
Recent Discoveries at Jerusalem
A Design for an Eight Room Cottage
The Principle of Design
Repairing a Great Spire
An Italian Artist's Residence-Sixteenth Century
A Window Grille of the Seventeenth Century
An Ocean Oil Well
Test for the Purity of Mineral Oils
Art in the Garden
Artificial Cocaine
Air Injectors for Liquid Fuels
Precautions in Building
The Pecan Tree
Earthquake Buildings
Design for Refreshment House
The Friendship of Birds
To Remove Exudations from Brick Walls
A Novel Chimney Staging
Ornamental Clapboards
Portable Iron Buildings
Photographic Notes
Proposed Fire Engine Elevators for use in the New York Engine Houses
American Institute Fair, New York
How to Restore Faded Inks
Prototypes of Hollow Beams in Nature
The Salt Mountain of Palestine
Construction in Earthquake Countries
Composition for Plastering, Filling, Wall Ornaments, Etc.
Rats on Board Ship
Relations of Architecture and Insurance
Strength of Beams
Old English Furniture
Palace of Artaxerxes
The Inventor of Hydraulic Cement
Revelations of the Earthquake
An Improved Window Blind
Bridging
Damp Houses
Cleaning Stonework
Business and Personal
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Frost on Show Windows
Weight of Iron Girders
Notes and Queries
Hints to Correspondents