Features
Government Investigation of the Bell Patents
The Ticking of the Clock
Night Sky–October and November
Preserving Eggs
Improvement of the Ohio River
The Soil as a Filter
Bag Holder for Trucks
Fire Escape
An Improved Carpet Stretcher
Drying Tomatoes
Egg Register and Tester
An Improved Keyhole Guard
Some Old Warwick Houses
The Relation of Domestic Chimneys to the Construction of Roofs
Improved Chimney Cap
Photographic Notes
Intensifer for Negatives
The Rotary Iron Jail
Westward the Squirrel
Tests of Stained Glass
The New Croton Aqueduct
Agee's Improved Corn Planter
A New Link Movement for Reversible Engines
Improved Tent
General George B. McClellan
The Nordenfelt Submarine Boat
Paper in Tonkin
The Star in Andromeda
Correspondence
Slag Wool
A Paper Chimney
Liquid Fuel in California
At the Interior
Porphyry Dyke
Miscellaneous Inventions
Agricultural Inventions
Business and Personal
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New Books and Publications
Engineering Inventions
Index of Inventions
For which Letters Patent of the United States were Granted October 20, 1885. and Each Bearing that Date [See Note at End of List about Copies of These Patents.]
Notes and Queries
Hints to Correspondents
