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PAGE
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| An Ingenious Rain Alarm
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65
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| Illuminating the American Flag
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72
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| What One Penny Will Buy in Electrical Service
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73
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| A Small Backyard Searchlight
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121
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| Thawing Frozen Water-Pipes Electrically
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145
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| An Electric Alarm Signal for the Fisherman
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149
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| Estimating the Windings of the Electromagnet Coils
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50
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| A Means of Indicating the Location of a Bell Call
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151
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| Combining the Telephone Receiver and Transmitter in One Instrument
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187
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| Next Summer's Ice. They Are Cutting It Now with Electricity
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197
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| A Flashlight to Show the Position of Talking-Machine Needles
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200
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| Why Are Abandoned Flour Mills Not Utilized as Lighting Stations?
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201
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| Remember Electrically
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212
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| Illuminating the Statue of Liberty
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213
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| An Electric Headlight for the Up-to-Date Horse
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242
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| Making a Bungalow Unpopular with Night Prowlers
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250
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| What a Circuit-Breaker Really Is
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250
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| Locating Buried Objects with a "Telepipe"
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262
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| Utilizing Tin Cans to Make Containers for Dry Batteries
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283
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| Easily-Constructed Step-Down Transformer
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307
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| One Telephone Used on Two Lines
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307
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| An Electric Lamp-Socket Lock Clamp and Seal
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308
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| Remover for Insulation on Electric Wires
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308
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| An Easily Made Adjustable Telephone Condenser
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313
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| How to Keep the Telephones from Humming
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313
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| An Electric Gas Lighter Operated with a Push-Button
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314
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| An Electric Circuit for a Freezing Alarm
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315
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| Makeshift Motor Starting Box for Burned-Out Rheostat
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315
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| Making a Miniature Light to Attach to a Book
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316
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| What the First Telegram Said
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343
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| Helping the Deaf to Hear with a New Electrical Ear
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53
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| A Frictionless Contact Generator of Static Electricity
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372
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| This Electric Coal-Bagging Machine Saves Labor
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436
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| Electric Steel from Electric Furnaces
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438
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| Magnetic Base for a Machinist's Electric Light
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442
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| Electricity Used to Start a Balky Horse
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448
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| How to Make an Electric Heater
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469
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| Cutting Holes in Plaster for Switch-Boxes
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473
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| An Electric Comb for Drying the Hair After the Shampoo
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573
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| A New Gun Flash Light
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583
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| Dynamo Lighting System for a Motorcycle
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601
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| Power Measurement Method Without a Watt-Meter
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633
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| An Emergency Electric Plug Made of Broken Lamp
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634
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| An Inexpensive Tester for an Electric Lamp
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634
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| Electromagnetic Rotation of an Electrolyte
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640
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| Toledo Plants a Baby Moon in the Sky
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665
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| Determining the Best Lighting Conditions for the Eye
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726
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| The Automatic Furnace-Watchman
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734
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| A Portable Electric Welding Apparatus
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734
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| To Cure a Balky Horse Just Press a Button
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753
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| Experiments with Static Electricity from Belts
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787
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| Making a Hot Wire Ammeter for Electric Currents
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788
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| Interesting and Instructive Electrical Experiments
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789
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| Laying Telegraph Cables Under Fire
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803
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| The Simplified Turbine for Small Electric Plants
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919
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| The Construction of a Fifty-volt Storage-battery
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947
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| A Light Signal to Designate a Blown Fuse
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950
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| Changing a Direct Current Bell into an Alternating One
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951
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| How to Make a Solderless Joint on Wire
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951
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| Testing Bell Circuits with Dividers
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951
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| HOUSEKEEPING MADE EASY
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PAGE
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| Putting the Sun at Work in the House
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4
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| Household Appliances
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38–39
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| A Miniature Power-Plant for the Home
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71
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| A Heat Regulating Device for the Furnace
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122
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| The Tea-Table Idea Applied to the Kitchen
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141
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| A Water-Heating Garbage Burner Is Both Useful and Sanitary
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187
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| A Ladder Which Can't Slip or Fall Over
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191
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| Drying the Family Washing Around the Stove
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202
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| A Machine Which Takes the Backache out of Carpet-Beating
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202
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| Household Appliances
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210–211
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| Beating Yolks and Whites Simultaneously
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224
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| A Double-Decked Serving Tray
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224
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| Dachshund Charlie. He Eats 'Em Alive
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230
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| A Simple Teakettle Attachment
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236
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| Is Your Closet-Room Scarce? Try this Type of Wardrobe
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237
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| Install a Motor-Driven Bootblack in Your Home
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239
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| A Soap That Blues the Clothes
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242
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| You Can't Find Your Brushes or Your Razor in Your Bag? Then Try This
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255
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| Ensnaring the Ashes of a Cigar as You Smoke
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280
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| You Don't Need to Dig in This Bag to Find What You Want
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345
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| Housekeeping Made Easy
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358–359
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| How the Bath-Tub May Be Transplanted
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361
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| A Novel Foot Radiator
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374
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| A Fan on the Sewing Machine Flywheel
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413
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| An Overhead Trolley System for the Hot Iron
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413
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| Make a Hanging Window Garden of Discarded Sponges
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428
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| Ironing a Four-in-hand Tie to Prevent Glossy Streaks
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443
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| Keeping Your Plants Watered While You Are Away
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452
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| How to Remove Stains from Various Kinds of Cloth
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462
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| A Clever Woman Discovers Handy Location for the Kitchen Towel
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464
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| Making Parallel Bars for the Home Gymnasium
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465
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| Household Appliances
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558–559
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| A New Use for Rhubarb. You Can Clean Pots with It
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564
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| A Crib, Baby Carriage and Bassinet All in One
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582
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| Disappearing Beds of the Cozy Apartments
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589
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| Tea Kettle with Whistle in Spout for a Signal
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604
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| A Coffee Percolator that Never Runs Dry
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685
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| The Ceiling Bed
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697
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| Housekeeping Made Easy
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718–719
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| Steam-Heat the Wallpaper to Tear It Off
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748
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| Vacuum Cleaning by Foot Pressure
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750
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| Household Water-Still of Easy Construction
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775
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| To Prevent the Corners of a Rug from Curling
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777
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| Making a Substitute Wood Handle for the Dustpan
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780
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| A Fountain Shoe-shining Outfit
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851
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| Household Helps
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872–873
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| A Pipe-Cleaning Wire Which Worms Its Way Around Bends
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888
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| A Concrete Cooler Which Chills by the Action of Evaporating Water
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911
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| Serving Individual Portions of Butter by Machinery
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912
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| This Type of Bottle-Stopper Is a Fraud Detector
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915
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| MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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PAGE
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| Painting Piping by Machine
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5
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| Efficiency Methods in Hauling and Scouring as Employed on the Water
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18–19
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| A Self-Starting Typewriter
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48
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| Doing Away with the Pick and Shovel in Excavations
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54
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| It Bites Its Way Through the Thickest Ice
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69
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| A Mechanical Telephone Operator
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73
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| A Mechanical Rock-Worm
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78
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| Saving Natural Gas with Muddy Water
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94
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| Filling in Trenches by Machinery
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96
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| The Popularity of Liquid-Measuring Pumps
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184
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| The Origin of the Locomotive Whistle
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187
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| Digging War Trenches with a Powerful Tractor
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191
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| Keeping Track of Piece Work
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199
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| Finishing a Collar by Machinery
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218
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| Mechanical Helps
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278–279
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| Doe-Power for Scissors Sharpener
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325
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| A Trip to Sugar Loaf Mountain
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334
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| New York's Street Sweeper and Flusher
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374
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| Measuring Sloping Roofs Without Breaking Your Neck
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391
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| Improvising a Compressed Air Tank
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393
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| Feeding a Fire with Hot Air to Save Coal
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396
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| Mechanical Helps
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383–391
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| New Concrete Mixer Efficient for Small Jobs
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427
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| Building a Street Car Line Without Stopping Work or Cars
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435
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| A Meter for Registering Amounts of Coal Used
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435
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| Making Cigars by Machinery
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504
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| Fighting in the Dark with Night Lights
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534
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| Pulling the Trigger with the Thumb
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534
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| Shooting the Gasoline Gun
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534
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