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Features
The New Twin Steamer "Calais-Douvres"
Destruction Vs Construction of Ironclads
Professor Langley's Papers on the Sun
Strawberries and Constipation
Vulcanizing Rubber
The Sun
Edison's Phonomoter
Excavating Scoop, New Mechanical Inventions, and More
Communications - July 27, 1878
New Screw Cutting Lathe
How to Use a File
Gampert's Wood-Sole Shoe
New Cloth Measuring Apparatus
Landing of Cleopatra's Needle
The Total Eclipse of the Sun
The Adjutant
New Iron Fence
Preserving Fish by Hydraulic Pressure
The Curiosities of Tobacco
Astronomical Notes - July 27, 1878
Communications Received - July 27, 1878
Departments
Notes and Queries - July 27, 1878
Business and Personal - July 27, 1878
Index of Inventions - July 27, 1878