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The Speed of Ice Yachts

Some Reasons for American Success

The Fisheries of the United States

By H. C. Hovey

Coal Tipping Machines and Screens

Novel Barrel Hoop

Combined Corkscrew and Bottle Faucet

Engineering Inventions

New Wind Mill

On a Resonant Tuning Fork

By Th. A. Edison

An Electric Lamp for an English Shilling

A Mammoth Plow

Miscellaneous Inventions

Steam Pavement Rammer

The Flying Fox

Agricultural Inventions

American Industries.--No. 22

Mechanical Inventions

Mysterious Clock

Communications Received

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  • Notes and Queries

  • New Books and Publications

  • Index of Inventions

  • Patents

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November 08, 1879

Complex Causes. Alternative Solutions.

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