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Volume 89 — July-December, 1916
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AERONAUTICS
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PAGE
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Yachting in the Air
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22
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Aeroplane Dreadnoughts
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75
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Torpedoing a Submarine from an Aeroplane
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323
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The Wastage of Flying Machines in the Great War
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377
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War Progress in Flying
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523
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Testing the Air-Fighter's Nerve
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580
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Testing the Lifting Capacity of Balloon Fabric
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586
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Introducing Our First Anti-Aircraft Gun
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657
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The One-Man Aeroplane Which a German Boy Is Building
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695
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The Sentinels of the Sky Above the War Zone Trenches
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839
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Making the Aeroplane Generate Its Own Power for Wireless
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842
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Faster Than the Fastest Express Train
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865
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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
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An Instrument for Plucking Flowers
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19
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A Workshop on Every Farm
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55
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A Flower Bed on Top of a Rock
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56
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A Unique Garden-Hose Holder
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56
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Conelike Flower-Holder in a Brick Wall
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63
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Filling Trenches by Machine
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94
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The Milk-Can Trolley
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100
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Chickens Feed Themselves on the Run
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110
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Measuring Rainfall on the Farm
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160
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Uncle Sam Says Miraculous Wheats Are An Old Delusion
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166
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Threshing by Night Under Electric Light
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166
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Why the Gasoline Engine Keeps the Farmer Boy at Home
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175
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Hitching the Mower to the Farm Automobile
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182
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Accelerating the Fruit-Picker with a Picking Harness
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185
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A New Garden Duster Which Uses Dry Spray
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195
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Plants on National Forest Ranges Which Kill Cattle
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252
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A Giant Cypress Tree Village in Paris
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267
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A Painless Way of Killing Chickens
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294
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A Simple Home-Made Milking Stool
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299
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Chick Mash Box
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301
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Improving the Hog's Table Manners
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306
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Uses for Wire-Glass on the Farm
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308
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Raising Parasites to Fight Pests
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368
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The Floating Vegetable Gardens of Mexico
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384
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A Garden Tractor which Does Everything but Mind the Baby
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410
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Rolling, Harrowing and Seeding with One Machine.
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417
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A Weed Destroyer from a Spoon and Broom-Handle
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468
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A Portable Colony Poultry House
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476
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A Cozy Southern Farmhouse
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479
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An Easily Made Self-Locking Device for Barn-Doors
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614
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A Combined Farm Implement Shed and Machine-Shop
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640
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The Largest Duck Farm in the World
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662-663
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The Handiest Bam Ever Built
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675
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A Humane Method of Destroying Horses
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684
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Cleaning and Sorting Beans by Machinery
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686
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Teaching English Girls the Art of Milking
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738
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Branding Animals with a Clamp-Button Monogram
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747
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An Alarm-Clock Dinner Bell for Old Dobbin
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779
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An Automatic Grain-Valve to Prevent Waste
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780
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Tropical "Snow Drifts" of Cheesecloth
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819
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An Adjustable Steering Device for the Tractor
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832
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Sheep May Not Like This But It Saves Time
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855
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Separating the Rooster from His Crow
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868
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Warning Herdsmen of Storms
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893
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Are You Paying for Your Farm or Is It Paying for Itself
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893
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Indoor Tomato Plants Fifteen Feet High
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895
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Valuable Products from Cherry Pits
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895
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An Anchored Hen House
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912
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Plans of a Small Modern Dairy Barn
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960
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ASTRONOMY
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Curious Set of Features Are New Markings on Mars
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225
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Lost Comets
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504
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Is Jupiter Launching a Moon?
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678
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Studying the Stars with Mirrors
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908
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AUTOMOBILES AND ACCESSORIES
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Automobile Scale-Demonstrator
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6
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A Duck-Boat as an Automobile Top
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14
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Portable Electric Tire-Inflator
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26
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Keeping Things Cold in a Real Automobile Refrigerator
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27
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A Record Motor-Truck Load of Barrels
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27
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How One Ford Got Up in the World
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28
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How Automobiles Innocently Break Windows
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31
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How an Automobile Engine Tests Water-Mains
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48
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What Make of Car Is It?
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72
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The Possibilities of the Ford Chassis
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84-85
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Semaphore Signals for Automobiles
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114
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Using Gates to Lessen Danger from Truck-Trailers
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116
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Lapping a Scored Automobile Engine Cylinder
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124
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A Handy Hook for the Automobilist
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125
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Trend of Motor-Truck Design Toward Worm Drive
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159
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An Air-Propelled Automobile for Three Dollars
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173
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The Reinforced Concrete Principle Applied to Automobile Tires
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182
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Automobiles. Motor Trucks and Accessories
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186-189
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Moving Guns with an Electric Battery Crane-Truck
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231
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Automatic Flagmen to Warn Motor-Car Drivers
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242
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A Gasoline-Electric Automobile
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253
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Lubricating Your Automobile
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262
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Starting Your Automobile with Ether
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307
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This Automobile Seat Serves as a Waiting Room
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332
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Economizing Gasoline for Automobiles
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355
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A Shim for Adjusting Plain Bearings
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355
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Automobiles, Motor-Trucks and Accessories
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356-357
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Fifteen Motor-Trucks in One
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358
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When the Horse Tops It Over the Automobile
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360
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Railroad Treads for Motor-Trucks
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391
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Motor-Trucks to the Rescue in a Freight Embargo
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412
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An Electric Motor-Chair
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412
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A Six-Wheel Automobile
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430
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Wiring the Ford for Magneto and Battery
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442
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Pumping Gasoline to the Motor
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508
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The Motorcycle Machine-Gun
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529
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Automobiles, Motor-Trucks and Accessories
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540-543
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"Troubleshooting" at Night
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544
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A Motor-Truck That Equals Two
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545
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The Wiles of the Automobile Thief
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560
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A New Gasoline-Motor-Driven Road Roller
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561
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Motoring on Roller-Skates
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569
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A Six-Mile Trip Through a Sewer on a Motor-Cycle
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574
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The Sidewalk Coaster Becomes an Automobile
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592
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Making Automobile Wheels Track Correctly
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593
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Quickly Adjustable Automobile Fan-Belt Fasteners
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604
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Loading Small Luggage on the Outside of the Car
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605
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How Piston-Ring Defects Have Been Overcome
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605
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Lightening Automobiles with Aluminum
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606
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Operating the Oil-Pump of an Automobile by Valve Action
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615
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A Watch-Carrier for the Motorcycle Handlebar
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615
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Easily Attached Shock-Absorber
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618
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How to Avoid Excessive Oiling in Cylinders
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620
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Spark-plugs Tested Without Removal
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621
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A Washstand Light for Garages
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645
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Charging Weak Magnetos of Weak Automobiles
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672
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A New Brake Which Makes Trucks Safe
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685
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Rubber-Ball Fender to Protect Unwary Pedestrians
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685
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Recording the Vibrations of a Motor-Truck Spring
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688
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When You Leave the Automobile, Lock the Robes!
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699
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Automobiles, Motor-Trucks and Accessories
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700-703
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The Automobile Street Car
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724
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Breaking a Mountain Trail
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740
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A Motor-Wheel for the Railroad Velocipede
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742
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Automatic Word Signals for Automobiles
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746
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Timing an Automobile Race
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753
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Backing an Automobile into a Moving Garage
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755
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Constructing a Sidecar for a Bicycle or Motorcycle
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765
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Fillers for the Pedal Slots of Automobiles
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783
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Lubricating Automobile Spring Shackles and Bolts
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783
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Estimating the Speed of Passing Automobiles
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784
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Making a Sediment Pocket in Feed Line to Carburetor
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784
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Caring for Storage Batteries on Automobiles
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792
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Novel Method of Drive for Light Cycle-Cars
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806
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Timing Automobile Speed Demons
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806
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A Wonderful New Glass Which Cannot Be Shattered
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811
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An Automatic Safety Fender Sets the Brakes
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836
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A Floating Road for Automobiles
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864
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The Intelligent Motor Milk-Wagon
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869
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Twelve Cylinders or Six in One Car
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872
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Plowing Snow with Your Automobile
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882
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Automobiles, Motor-Trucks and Accessories 888 —
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891
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An Automobile Pump Drive from the Rear Wheel
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895
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The Tiniest Motorcycle to Be Used in the Army
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896
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Preaching the Gospel from an Automobile
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906
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Tank Trucks as Tenders to Submarines
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906
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Testing the Strength of an Ostrich
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907
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A British Motor-Bus Run on Coal Gas
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912
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A Motor-Driven Brake
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914
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Wire Wheels for Automobiles
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915
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Combination Lamp and Horn for the Motorcycle
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920
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Automobile Carbureter for Heavy Fuel Oils
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936
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BOATING
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Your Mainsail and the Wind
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49
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Forty Miles an Hour on the Water
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83
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How to Run a Motor-Boat
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112
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CHEMISTRY
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Asphyxiating a Fire with Sulphur
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884
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Producing the Coldest Cold
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916
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A Quickly Made Silver-Platng Powder
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937
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How to Handle Sulphuric Acid with Safety
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945
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CIVIL ENGINEERING
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The Destruction of the Exposition City
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8-11
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A Ticklish Moment
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29
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"Ironing Out" Earthquake Wrinkles in San Francisco
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31
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An Inverted Steam Hammer for Drawing Piles
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53
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Saving Hours in Handling New York Subway Dirt
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54
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An Excavator Which Walks
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61
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Electrifying the Clam-Shell Bucket
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87
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Making Water Pump Itself
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98
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A Damaged Lock Gate Repaired by Its Own Water
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234
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Lowering a Bridge Without Blocking the Traffic
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240
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Uncle Sam's New Dam at Elephant Butte
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259
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A Substantial Cableway Built from Scrap Material
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327
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The Senators' Subway
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328
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Bagging Rivet Heads with a Butterfly Net
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333
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Blowing Concrete into Place
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411
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Safeguarding the Sand Blaster
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418
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Building a Bank Around a Bank
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485
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Holding the Hudson at Bay
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537
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Road Construction Facts by the Wayside
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544
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Solving New York's Freight Problem
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546
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Ten Millions to Save Four Miles
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553
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Transforming a Beauty Spot into a Public Utility
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574
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A Bridge Five and One Half Miles Long
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583
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Strenuous Search for Durable Roads in a St. Louis Park
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672
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Giant Slabs of Marble to Commemorate Abraham Lincoln
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689
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Meerschaum as a Building Material in Spain
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689
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Boring Straight by Photography
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720
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Quebec's Disastrous Bridge
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728
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Cleaning Sewers from the Street
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838
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The Old-Fashioned Heavy Paving-Block Gives Place to a New Form
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844
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Taking the Temperature of a Dam
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866
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ELECTRICITY
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Welding Soft Metal to Hard
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17
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The Voice Typewriter
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65
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An Exciter for Electroscopes
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135
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Interference of Lighting Circuit by Static Electricity
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135
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Rejuvenating Electric Lamps
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135
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A Wet Battery from a Dry One
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135
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Electric Striking Mechanism for Mission Clocks
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137
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An Electrically Operated Device for Lighting Gas
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141
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How to Make an Attachment-Plug
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142
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A Model Electrical Hammer
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142
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How to Make an Electric Shaving-Mug
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143
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Testing Electric Lamps Quickly
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144
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Using Cartridge Shells for Electrical Contacts
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144
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A Hoop with a Guiding Hub
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152
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Perfuming and Cooling the Air with An Electric Fan
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175
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The King of New York s Lighting Spectacles
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177
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A Tool for Buffing, Drilling and Grinding Metal Surfaces
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192
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Toying with High Tension Currents
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248
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A Home-Made Edison Battery
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276
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A Clever Window Display
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277
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Five Examples of Alarm Work
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279
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Rectifying Alternating Current
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283
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Making an Electric Fire Alarm
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284
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Cutting Glass-Tubing by Electricity
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311
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A One-Eyed Mechanical Stenograptier
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335
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Why You Could Not Get Your Man on the Wire
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371
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An Electric Motor-Chair
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412
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A Convenient Arrangement for Turning on the Hall Light
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442
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Wiring the Ford for Magneto and Battery
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442
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A Simple Way to Construct a Ten-Ampere Shunt
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443
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Controlling Temperature and Humidity at the Same Time
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444
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Electric Substitute for the Latch-key
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444
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Making an Induction Coil
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446
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Magnet Winder
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446
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Dry Cells and Their Voltage
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446
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Utilizing Broken Marble Pieces
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446
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How to Rid Your Yard of Cats
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447
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To Stop the Milk Thief
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447
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A Simple Primary Coil
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452
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A Heat-Resisting Socket for High Wattage Lamps
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511
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Pocket-Flashlight Distress-Signals
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520
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A Hand-Magnet That Lifts Fifteen Times Its Own Weight
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536
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The Czar of the Power-House
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555
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A New Electric Cloth-Cutter for Small Shops
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564
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The Electrical Scrub-Woman — Brainless but Efficient
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566
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Small Electric Pump for Draining Seepage from a Cellar
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567
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A Voting Machine for Congress
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582
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Flood Lighting Niagara
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584
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The Nic:ht Eyes of the Coast Artillery
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586
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A Warning to Fishermen
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590
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A Photographic Printing-Box for Use with Electric Current
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601
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A Simple Tracing Method for Electrical Draftsmen
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606
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Tapping Field Telephone Wires
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622
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Tracing Initials on Tools with Electricity
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632
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Saving the Picture Show with a New Rheostat
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633
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A Combination Front and Back Door Alarm-Bell
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634
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Electric Burner for Making Storage-Battery Connections
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634
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To Change a Gas Lamp into an Electric Light
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635
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Lighting an Oil-Stove with an Alarm-Clock
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635
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A Simple Electrical Device for Purifying Water
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638
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Lifting Street Cars with a Powerful Electric Hoist
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673
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Electric Hand Lantern Costs Less than a Kerosene Burner -
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681
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Electric Ranges Are Becoming Popular
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681
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Electrolytic Extraction of Gold from Black Sand
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680
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Look Out Perhaps the Man You're Talking to Wears a Detectaphone
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687
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Protecting the Telephone Operator
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706
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Telegraphing Through the Ocean
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711
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Toys That Obey Your Voice
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718
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Miniature Magnet-Propelled Ships
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757
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Hearing Your Voice Through Your Bones
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142
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Manhole Ventilated with Electric Fan
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748
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Reducing the Furnace Man to a Mere Push-Button
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751
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A Magic Wand Which Changes Cold Water into Hot Almost Instantly
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752
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The Electric Thief-Catcher
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756
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How Electricity and Temperature Affect a Watch
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761
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A Hallowe'en Chamber of Horrors
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777
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An Improvised Coil Winder for Electrical Apparatus
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787
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A Home-Made Fuse for a Small Battery Current
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793
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Amateur Trench FJcctricians
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794
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A Danger Signal Used to Direct Attention Overhead Perils
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829
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An Extension Reel for Electric Lamps
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843
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An Electrically Heated Foot-Board for the Policeman
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683
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Determining the Intensity of Illumination by a New Measuring System
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913
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Making an Electrically Heated Soldering Iron
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947
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An Electric Burglar Alarm Attached toa Door-Lock
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947
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A Dead End Switch of the Multiple-Point Type
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948
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A Salt Water Polarity Indicator Made from a Burned Out Fuse
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952
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An Electrically-Operated Recording Weather Vane
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952
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Operating Furnace Checks and Drafts by Electricity
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954
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HOUSEKEEPING MADE EASY
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An Improved Vegetable Slicer
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107
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Housekeeping Made Easy
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111
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Why Young Girls Don't Leave Home
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232
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Keeping Food Without Ice
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293
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Make Your Own Lazy-Betty
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299
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Improving a Towel-Roller
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301
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String Holder and Cutter
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306
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Handy Folding Kitchen Tables
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309
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Housekeeping Made Easy
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372
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Cleaning Gloves Economically with Benzine
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409
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Converting Sun-Parlor into Bedroom
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427
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A Towel Holder
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458
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A Convenient Shoe-Rack
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459
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An Easily Constructed Holder for the Broom
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468
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A Screen Door-check
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477
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How Do You Sit?
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551
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Bathing in Your Trunk
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557
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Housekeeping Made Easy
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558
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Using the Steam Radiator to Remove Wall-Paper
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564
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The Electric Scrub-Woman — Brainless but Efficient
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566
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Trundling Your Washing-Machine on Wheels
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566
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Why Isn't This Used Instead of Hooks and Eyes?
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575
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Repairing Worn Wheels of a Carpet-Sweeper
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601
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A Scheme for Keeping Pictures Hanging Straight
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608
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A Clothes-Rack foi Use Indoors and Outdoors
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603
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Protecting the Gas Range with a Wind-Shield
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618
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Turning tfie Stationary Tub into an Electric Washing Machine
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647
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Electric Ranges Are Becoming Popular
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681
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Housekeeping Made Easy
|
690
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Water-Heating Garbage Burner
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698
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Doing the Family Washing in Your Rocking Chair
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738
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The "Permanent Wave" of a Woman's Hair and Its Secret
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743
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Reducing the Furnace Man to a Mere Push-Button
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731
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A Comfortable Electric Foot-Warmer Pad
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752
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A Foot-Warmer Attachment for a Radiator
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761
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How to Straighten the Crooked Straws of a Broom
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775
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A Heater for Use Over the Flame of a Gas Jet or Kerosene Lamp
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855
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Housekeeping Made Easy
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858
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Removing Old Starch from Clothes by a Malt Extract Bath
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913
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HOW THE WAR IS BEING FOUGHT
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War Pictures
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32
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When the Fighting Man Dreams
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53
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Locating Guns by Delicate Earthquake-Detectors
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178
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Submarine Destroyers
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180
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War Pictures
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208
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Experimenting with Liquid Fire
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208
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Firing with Heavy Artillery at an Enemy You Can't See
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226
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War Pictures
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336
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The Wastage of Flying Machines in the Great War
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377
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"Shooting" a Photograph with a Pistol-Camera
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408
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A Modern War Relic
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425
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Fitting Penholders to Crippled Hands
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435
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War Pictures
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487
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How London Cares for Soldiers' Babies
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502
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How the Firing of Heavy Guns Affects Animals
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576
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Detecting Enemy Submarines from a Ship's Look-Out
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579
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INVENTIONS TO MAKE LIFE EASY
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Adjustable Kettle-Cover
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113
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Hammer for Onc-Armed Man
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113
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Handling the Cord of Electric Irons
|
113
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At Last! A Lock for Slipping Rubbers
|
113
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A New Way of Directing the Breeze of a Fan
|
113
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A Suit-Shaker Which Will Not Clog
|
113
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An Adjustable Golf-Tee Board
|
114
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Combined Penholder and Blotter
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114
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Saw Cuts Square Hole
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114
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Semaphore Signals for Automobiles
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114
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Skinning the Slippery Eel
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114
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Why Fall Down in Your Bath-Tub?
|
114
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At Last! A Machine Which Irons Skirts Without a Murmur
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184
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Keeping Cool with a Fan Driven by a Hot-Air Engine
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246
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A Fancy Shoe-Lace Cover
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270
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A Heater for the Parlor Lamp
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270
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Pipe Loaded from Stem
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270
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Automatic Roller Bearing
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270
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A Spoon That Can't Slip
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270
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Spout Attachment for Bottles
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270
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Aluminum Billiard Cue
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271
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Automobiling with a Bicycle
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271
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Beating the Dentist to It
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271
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A Cure for Butter Fingers
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271
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Facilitating Speed in Writing
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271
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A Swatter for High-Fliers
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271
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Shoes of Esparto Straw which Outwear Leather
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375
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Escaping the Barber's Fingers
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432
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Collapsible Tooth-Brush Case
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432
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Keeping the Baby's Bottle Just Right
|
432
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A Pipe with a Cleaning Wick
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432
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A Detachable Massage Brush
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432
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A Mechanical Oyster-Opener
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432
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Holding Asparagus in the Can
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433
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Adding Dignity to Condensed Milk Cans
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433
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Putting Ejchaust Gases to Work
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433
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Reducing Eye-Strain
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433
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Handle and Cover for Milk Bottles
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433
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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Revolving Portable Elevator
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165
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Coaling a Liner with An Elevator
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206
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A Giant Grinder Which Goes to Its Work
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240
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How Heat Is Measured with the Eye
|
330
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New Kind of Lawn Sprinkler
|
332
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Loading Guns by Pneumatic Tube
|
334
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The Paving Blocks of Paris
|
352
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Sorting and Packing Apples by Machinery
|
363
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A Low Water Alarm for Boilers
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370
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Locomotive Runs Three Hours on Charge from Boiler Plant
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370
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A Typewriter Made Especially for the One-Armed
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371
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A Locomotive that Burns Pulverized Coal
|
376
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Keeping Watch on the Chimney
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378
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The "Spinning Whejpl" Gun
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397
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One of the Pranks of the San Francisco Earthquake
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416
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Why Not Make Rain Work? A Chance for a Rain Motor
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419
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Smoothing Sidewalks by Machine
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426
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The Preeminence of American Inventive Ingenuity
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427
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Belt Shifter Protects Workmen
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434
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A Curious Clock Built on a New Principle
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511
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Putting Wheels Under Workmen
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514
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Harnessing the Sun
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513
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A Machine-Shop in a Diving-Bell
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577
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Preventing Ships from Rolling with Fly Wheels
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591
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Cleaning Crown Bottle-Corks in a Portable Hopper
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592
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A High-Speed Bit That Bores Without Choking
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647
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Let a Puff of Air Do It
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664
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Air Is Stronger Than Arms
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665
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Dummies That Dance and Play
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666
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Dual Power. Portable Hoisting Machine of Compact Design
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674
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A Modern "Newspaper Maker"
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676
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A Simple Instrument Which Measures the Height of a Tree
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696
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To Protect the Fingers of the Woodworker
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705
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Combined Velocipede and Hobby-Horse
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715
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Felling Trees Automatically with a Mechanical Swordfish
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715
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A Water Curtain Used on a Heating Furnace
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726
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The Inventor of the Steam Engine Was Interested in Gim-Cracks
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739
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Saving Gold and Silver on the Vacuum-Cleaner Principles
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750
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This Ice-Cutting Machine Takes the Place of Eight Horse-Teams
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810
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Preventing Boiler Troubles by Mechanical Cleaning
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811
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An Adjustable Steering Device for the Tractor
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832
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A Mechanical Printer for Facsimile Letters
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836
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