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Star Bobbins for Sewing Cotton and Thread

Smokeless Powder and Magazine Rifles

By L. G. Duff Grant

Tests of Wire and Cut Nails

The Manufacture of Liquors and Preserves

By J. De Brevans

A Simple Continuous Polariscope Tube

Skating Rink with Artificial Ice

The Continuous use of Condensing Water

High Railway Speeds in France

1,600 Indicated Horse Power Tandem Mill Engine

Development of Electric Metal Working

By Frederick P. Royce

The First Locomotive Whistle

Alarm Fastenings

On some Recent Discoveries and Problems in the Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain

By James J. Putnam

Gymnastic Anatomy

Galileo Galilei and the Celebration at Padua

How to Live where there is Malaria

The Chimpu

Millions of Cattle Dying in Africa

The Egyptian Method of Transplanting Trees, B. C. 1600

Our Molten Globe

The Late Eruption of Pantelleria

The Prehistoric Races of Italy

By Canon Isaac Taylor

Specific Gravity

The Carbonic Acid in Air

Crystallized Vegetable Proteids

Useful Engineering Books

Oxidation of Nickel Carbonyl

Patents!

The Luminosity of Coal Gas Flames

By James Leicester

Analysis of Washing Powders

By W. J. Kinney, W. H. Wenger and F. P. D.

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