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The New Commissioner of Patents

The French Exposition of 1889 at the Esplanade Des Invalides

Skill and Art in the Heathen Era

By J. T. Fanning

The Compound Principle as Applied to Locomotives

By Edgar Worthington

The St. George Bridge Disaster

Exhibition of Cycles

Transmission by Superposed Belts

Gymnastic Exercises and Apparatus

Meteorites and the History of Stellar Systems

Bisulphide of Carbon

The Kelsey Plum

The Construction of Photographic Lenses

By Conrad Beck

The Origin of the Name “America”

Building Plans and Specifications

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