Axle box, car, J. N. Smith 208,993
Axle skein, vehicle, L. A. Winchester 209,096
Ballot box, W. L. Barnes 208,951
Bed bottom, F. W. Mitchell 208,917
Bed bottom, spring, H. Pitcher 208,987
Bed lounge, H. S. Carter 209,019
Bed, spring, A. J. Lattin 208,979
Bedstead fastening, L. P. Clark 209,022
Boilers, low water alarm for steam, G. H. Crosby 208,962
Boot and shoe counter support, etc., J. Wissen 208,943
Bootjack, C. Tyson 209,091
Brake, vacuum, F. W. Eames 208,895
Bran scourer, R. Tyson 209,092
Broom, M. T. Boult 209,017
Brush, A. C. Estabrook 208,898
Camera, J. W. T. Cadett 208,956
Can, E. Norton 209,070
Can, metallic, J. Broughton 209,009
Can, oil, A. E. Gardner 209,037
Can, sheet metal, A. N. Lapierre 209,060
Car bumper, S. M. Cummings (r) 8,448
Car coupling, J. Simmons 208,934
Car draw bar attachment, railway, J. H. Smitt 208,994
Car journal box, F. M. Alexander 208,947
Car running gear, railway, J. C. Weaver 209,093
Cars, dust deflector for, Morgan & Gilleland 209,066
Carbureter, air, G. Reznor 209,076
Carriage, C. H. Palmer, Jr. 208,923
Carriage seats, corner iron for, L. Emerson 208,971
Carriage top standard, F. W. Whitney 209,097
Cartridge loading machine, G. S. Slocum 208,935
Cartridges, machine for gauging, J. H. Gill 208,903
Casting andirons, mould for, S. E. Jones 209,054
Casting temple rollers, mould for, J. B. Stamour 208,997
Chair for children, high, J. Nichols (r) 8,454
Chair, reclining, N. N. Horton 208,907
Chalk, sharpener for tailor's, J. Butcher 208,955
Churn, J. H. Folliott 209,033
Churn, reciprocating, L. B. Wilson 208,941
Clasp, T. P. Taylor 208,998
Clock striking attachment, D. C. Wolf 209,098
Cock, steam, G. H. Crosby 208,961
Coin holder, C. H. Carpenter 208,958
Coin holder, B. McGovern 208,984
Coin measure, C. H. Fuller 208,902
Coke oven, W. H. Rosewarne 208,930
Combing machine, Rushton & Macqueen 208,991
Cooler and filter, water, J. C. Jewett 208,909
Cooler, water, G. W. Malpass 208,913
Cotton gin, J. B. Hull 209,049
Crucible machine, J. C. Clime 208,960
Cultivator, J. C. Bean 209,005
Cultivator, B. H. Cross 208,964
Cultivator, C. Nash 208,921
Dental foil package, R. S. Williams 209,002
Dental plugger, W. G. A. Bonwill 209,006
Desk, H. E. Moon 208,919
Doffer combs, operator for, E. Wright 208,946
Draught equalizer, L. O. Brekke 209,007
Dredging machine, J. B. Eads 208,894
Drill cleaner, grain, J. W. Lucas 208,982
Dummy, H. H. Baker 208,881
Ear ring, W. P. Dolloff 208,968
Electric machine, dynamo, E. Weston 209,094
Elevator, windlass water, J. Knipscheer 209,057
End gate fastening, F. Rock 208,928
Evaporator, fruit and vegetable, J. W. Powers 208,925
Excavating machine, J. T. Dougine 208,893
Exercising machine, W. J. O. Bryon, Jr. 208,954
Exhaust nozzle, N. J. White 208,939
Fabric cutter, Muehling & Davis 208,920
Feathers for dusters, G. M. Richmond 209,080
Fence, J. Williams 209,095
Fence, picket, Terry & W. W. Green, Jr. 209,089
Firearm, breech-loading, H. C. Bull 209,010
Firearm, breech-loading, J. D. Coon 208,889
Fire escape, V. Wohlmann 208,944
Firekindler, T. M. Benner 208,882
Firekindler, E. J. Norris 209,069
Fluting machine, C. G. Cabell (r) 8,453
Fork, W. H. Kretsinger 209,058
Fuel compressor, W. H. Rosewarne 208,929
Gas burner, pressure governing, J. N. Chamberlain 209,021
Gas burners, apparatus for, A. L. Bogart 209,016
Gate, C. D. & I. Haldeman 209,040
Gate, J. S. Henshaw 208,976
Gate, Nason & Wilson (r) 8,456
Grain binder, M. A. Keller 209,059
Grain separator, G. W. Earhart 208,896
Gun, air, B. T. Babbitt 209,014
Harness, neck yoke attachment for, J. S. Nelson 208,922
Harrow, sulky, S. C. Dix 209,028
Harvester rake, J. Barnes 208,950
Harvester reel, Hodges & Mohler 209,047
Head light, locomotive, E. L. Hall 209,041
Heels, turner for wooden, Prenot & Marchal 208,989
Hide and skin dresser, C. Molinier 208,918
Hitching post, Thomas & Knox 209,090
Hoe. T. Weiss 209,000
Hog cholera compound, M. Hemmingway 208,975
Horse collar, J. J. Crowley 209,025
Horse power, C. H. Baker 208,948
Horsepower, A. B. Farquhar 209,032
Horse toe weight, J. W. Bopp 208,927
Ice, manufacturing, A. Albertson (r) 8,455
Indicator, water level, E. Jerome 209,052
Journal, R. Macdonald 208,983
Journal bearing, W. W. Smalley 209,084
Knife, chopping, W. Millspaugh 209,065
Knob attachment, door, J. F. Peacock 208,924
Lamp holder, A. A. Noyes 209,071
Lamp bowl, F. Rhind 209,077
Lamp chimney, nursery, E. Mecier 208,916
Lamp, miner's, W. Roberts 209,082
Lamp, self-extinguishing, F. Rhind 209,078
Lantern, J. H. Irwin 209,051
Lantern, signal. H. E. Pond (r) 8,457
Latch, B. W. Foster 209,034
Lathe for turning regular forms, E. A. Marsh 209,064
Lead, refining, impure, N. S. Keith 209,056
Leather skiving machine, M. M. Clough 208,959
Leather splitting machine, A. E. Whitney 209,001
Loom temple, J. B. Stamour 209,101
Lubricator, N. Seibert 208,932
Lubricator, steam cylinder, N. Seibert 208,931
Marble, slate, etc., ornamenting, W. K. Lorenz 209,062
Match dipping machine, A. R. Sprout 208,996
Meter, steam diaphragm, C. Holly 209,048
Middlings bolt, M. Inskeep 209,050
Middlings separator, G. T. Smith. 208,936
Musical instrument, E. P. Needham (r) 8,451
Musical string instruments, key for, F. Z. Nicolier 208,985
Needle, J. Burrows 209,018
Oat meal machine, Eberhard & Turner 208,970
Ordnance, operating heavy, H. C. Bull 209,011
Ore separator, P. Plant 209,074
Oven, hot blast, Miles & Burghardt 208,915
Package wrapper, G. V. Hecker 209,044
Packing for piston rods, metallic, M. H. Gerry 208,973
Pan cover, milk, C. C. Fairlamb 208,900
Paper feeding apparatus, F. H. Lauten 208,980
Paper making machines, box for, C. Young 209,003
Paper pulp, reducing wood to, Cornell & Tollner 208,890
Peach parer, W. S. Plummer 208,988
Pen, puncturing, J. M. Griest 208,905
Pessary, medicated, T. N. Berlin 208,883
Pipe, smoking, W. H. Caddy 208,886
Planter, corn, Brigham & Flenniken 208,885
Planter, grain, C. E. McBonn 208,914
Planter, seed, G. A. Woods 208,945
Plaster bandages, making, C. G. Hill 209,045
Plow, C. Myers 209,067
Plow and harrow attachment, shovel, A. Heartsill 209,043
Plow and harrow, W. G. Himrod 209,046
Plow clevis, H. Estes 208,899
Plow, hillside, shovel, and subsoil, E. Tate 209,088
Plow, sulky, F. H. Isaacs 208,978
Press, cotton and hay, Tappey & Steel 209,087
Printing and painting machine, O. Currier 208,892
Printing, photo-mechanical, M. R. Freeman 209,036
Propelling vessels, P. Boisset 208,952
Pulleys to wheels, engaging, Blake & Davis 208,884
Pump, S. Stucky 209,086
Pump, double acting lift, Dean & Pike 209,027
Rafter, F. M. Covert 209,024
Railway rails, muffling, A. Atwood 208,880
Railway signal, C. E. Hanscom 209,042
Railway signal, electro-magnetic, H. W. Spang 208,995
Railway track, B. F. Card 208,957
Rake, horse hay, W. Adriance 209,004
Rolling mills, bearing for, S. W. Baldwin 208,949
Roofs, attaching slates to, S. Farquhar 209,031
Rope holding reel, C. N. Cass 209,020
Rosettes from wood, making, J. H. Burnshow 239,012
Seal, baggage, E. J. Brooks 208,953
Seal, metallic, E. J. Brooks 209,008
Seeding machine, S. O. Campbell 208,887
Sewing machine, C. S. Cushman 209,026
Sewing machine, J. A. Davis 208,967
Sewing machine, L. Evans 209,030
Sewing machine, book, J. S. Lever 209,061
Sewing machine, hem stitching, J. A. Lakin 208,911
Sewing machine tuck marker, G. Rehfuss 209,075
Shaft and pulley coupling, H. C. Crowell 208,965
Shears, metal, W. G. Collins 208,888
Ships unloading grain from W. Stanton (r) 8,452
Shoe, J. F. Emerson 208,897
Shutter bower, T. Thorn 208,937
Shutter worker, W. Jones 209,055
Sign, W. Gulden 208,974
Sinks, measuring and weighing, D. T. Winter 208,942
Sled, stone and log, W. Gregg 209,039
Sleigh, propeller, R. Schluter 209,083
Spittoon, T. Loughran 208,981
Spring, car, G. F. Godley 208,904
Spring, vehicle, E. Chamberlin (r) 8,449, 8,450
Spring, vehicle, C. W. Fillmore 208,901
Spring, vehicle, H. R. Huie 208,977
Steamer, feed, Machamer & McCulloch 209,063
Stirrup, saddle, J. M. Freeman 208,972
Stove board, A. C. Stoessiger 209,085
Stove cover and check damper, H. Ritter 209,081
Stove pipe shelf, L. W. Turner 208,938
Stoves, foot bar and rail for, J. Jewett 209,053
Stoves, hood for cooking, S. Cromer 208,891
Stump puller. W. A. Webb 208,999
Sugar, manufacture of hard, J. O. Donner 209,029
Switch cords, tip for, T. B. Doolittle 208,969
Table folding, R. M. Lambie 208,912
Tablet, writing, W. O. Davis 208,966
Target, W. Kuhn 208,910
Ticket, passenger, A. C. Sheldon 208,933
Ticket-reel. T. D. Haehnlen 208,906
Toy money box J. Gerard 209,038
Treadle power, I. M. Rhodes 209,079
Turbines, steam and other, P. C. Humblot 208,908
Valve, J. Patterson 208,986
Valve, feed water regulating, E. C. Da Silva 208,992
Valve gear, steam engine, J. Butcher 209,013
Ventilator, T. Owens 209,072
Wagon jack, W. B. Bartram 209,015
Wagon jack, Williams & Dodge 208,940
Washing machine, D. Coman 209,023
Washing machine, A. R. Fowler 209,035
Washing machine, F. F. Reynolds 208,990
Water gauge, G. H. Crosby 208,963
Weighing apparatus, J. H. Wright 209,099
Window, A. K. Phillips 209,073
Window frame, C. Rebhun 208,926
Wreaths, machine for twining, G. B. Shepard 209,100
TRADE MARKS.
Cigars, cigarettes, etc., E. Hilson 6,726
Cigars, etc., Engelbrecht Fox & Co. 6,724, 6,725
Disinfecting compound, Hance Bros. & White 6,718
Gin, Hoffheimer Brothers 6,729
Lamp chimneys, Norcross, Mellen & Co. 6,730
Liquid cements. W. H. Sanger 6,731
Malt extract, Tarrant & Co. 6,722
Matches, J. Eaton & Son 6,727
Mustard and spices, H. B. Sherman 6,720, 6,721
Perfumery, J. T. Lanman 6,719
Playing cards, The N. Y. Consolidated Card Co. 6,723
Smoking tobacco, H. W. Meyer 6,728
Wash blue, F. Damcke 6,711
DESIGNS.
Carpet, C. Magee 10,870
Cigar boxes, Weller & Repetti 10,871
Font of printing types, J. M. Conner 10,868
Group of statuary, J. Rogers 10,869
Handkerchiefs, J. Grimshaw 10,866, 10,867
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1878.
I.--INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES AND PATENTS.
The Incoming Commissioner of Patents.
A South Australian Offer for an Improvement.
The Forster-Firmin Amalgamator. Three engravings.
Lyman's Trigonometer. One figure.
Patent Law.
The Benefits of Patent Rights.
Hop Picking by Machinery.
Description of Recent Most Important Agricultural Inventions.
Displays of Ingenuity at the Boston Mechanics Fair.
Description of Recent Most Important Mechanical Inventions.
New Wilson Oscillating Sewing Machine. Seven figs.
A Nail Gun.
Who will Invent a Satisfactory Milking Machine?
The Hermetical Sanitary Closet. One engraving.
New Refrigerator Basket. Two engravings.
New Fireproof Shutter. One engraving.
Inventors Needed in England.
New Foot Power. One engraving.
New Wool Scouring and Rinsing Machine. One eng.
New Measuring Jacket. Three engravings.
New Rheostat. Two engravings.
The Paris International Patent Congress.
Patent Rights, and Who Oppose Them.
New Gas Regulator. Three engravings.
Combined Traction Engine and Steam Fire Engine. One engraving.
Van Renne's Caloric Engine and Pump. Three engs.
The Watson Pump. One engraving.
The Swedish Buckeye Machine.
Pipe Wrench and Cutter. Two engravings.
Drilling Square Holes. Four figures.
Description of Recent Most Important Engineering Inventions.
New Mortising Machine. One engraving.
New Steam Fire Engine. One engraving.
New Bank Note Paper Wanted.
The Proposed Addition to the Patent Office. Two engravings.
A Year's Work in the Patent Office.
New Rule in Trade Mark Cases.
Electric Light in Chancery.
Novel Egg Opener. Two engravings.
Patents for Protecting the Dead.
Electric Light Patents.
A New Platen Gauge. Four engravings.
New Draughting Pencil. Two engravings.
Gas and Water-tight Cloth.
New Regulator for Clock Pendulums. Two engs.
Steam Engine Governor. One engraving.
Description of Recent Most Important Miscellaneous Inventions.
Notices of New Inventions.
Patent Office Library.
II.--MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING.
Chard's Lubricene and Cups.
The Electric Light and the Gas Companies.
Fuel Gas.
New Ways to Use Iron Wanted.
Progress and Prospects of the East River Bridge. Two engravings.
A Steam Tricycle.
New Artesian Well, Victoria, Spain.
A Long Train.
How a Good House Should be Built.
Jetties Under Water.
How the Capitol at Albany, N. Y., is to be Warmed and Ventilated.
What a Perfect Railway Brake Should do.
The Secret of It.
Florida Ship Canal.
The Torpedo Vessel Destroyer. One illustration.
Steam from Petroleum.
The Motion of a Wagon Wheel.
Building in Steel.
Locomotive for the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. One illustration.
The French Dam Below Pittsburg, Ohio.
The Adelphi Explosion.
"Forney" Locomotive for the New York Elevated Railway. One large engraving.
The Steam Value of Oil Fuels.
The Mechanical and other Properties of Iron and Mild Steel.
French Wheelbarrows. Twenty-five engravings.
Small Steamboats.
Life Preservers.
A Gas Clock.
Another Mountain Railway.
Preservation of Iron.
The Salisbury Furnace for Petroleum.
Danger from Lubricating Oils.
The Testing of Boiler Iron.
Tramway Rail Experiments. Two engravings.
Aluminum and Platinum in the Manufacture of Watches.
Great Machine Tool Makers.
Gas as a Substitute for Solid Fuel.
III.--MINING AND METALLURGY.
The Formation of Quartz.
Depth of Nevada Gold and Silver Mines.
California Mining vs. Farming.
New Form of Iron Manufacture.
Comstock Silver Lodes.
IV.--CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS.
Dangers from Impure Potassium Iodide.
The Poplar as a Lightning Conductor.
The Mariner's Compass.
Crude Sulphur from Iron Pyrites.
Antimony for Batteries.
Delicate Test for Water.
The Polarization of Electrodes.
Fragarine.
Balata Gum.
Astronomical Notes. Giving the Positions, Rising,
and Setting of the Planets for November.
Professor Morton on the Electric Light.
The Electrical Department in the Mechanic's Fair, Boston.
The Satellites of Mars.
Gold Amalgams.
Another New Electric Light.
Albumen of the Serum and that of Egg, and their Combinations.
A Mirror Telegraph.
Some Modifications of the Microphone and Telephone. Four engravings.
A Chance for Electric Competition.
Advantages of Experimental Study.
The Black Spot of Jupiter.
The Electric Light. With five engravings.
Spontaneous Combustion.
Recent Military Balloon Experiments.
Burner for Electric Light. One engraving.
Artificial Ball Lightning. One engraving.
To Make Corks Air-tight and Water-tight.
Electric Time Service for New York. Four engravings.
The Hosmer Motor.
Polarized Light.
Phosphorescent Timepieces.
The De Meritens Magneto-electric Machine. Two figures.
Cellulose as a Material for Washers.
V.--NATURAL HISTORY, NATURE, MAN, ETC.
The Golden Cup Oak.
Serpulas, or Sea Worms. One engraving.
The King Tody Bird. One engraving.
Life Without Air.
Cadaver-poison of the Australian Natives.
The Contortion of Rocks from Heat Mechanically Generated.
The Stiffening of Plant Stalks.
Immense Labor Performed by Bees.
The Torrey Botanical Club.
The Big Trees of California.
Explorations in Greenland.
The Umbrella Bird. One engraving.
The Argan Tree.
A Spruce-destroying Beetle.
A Geological Discovery in Deep Water.
The Mound Builder's Unit of Measure.
Progress of Horticulture.
Bishop Ferrette on the Cedars of Lebanon.
Special Senses in Insects.
Natural History Notes.
New Cave Discovery in Kentucky.
Longevity of the Horse.
Left-handedness.
Bee Culture in Egypt.
The Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper. Two engravings.
The Crafty Hermit Crab. One illustration.
VI.--MEDICINE AND HYGIENE.
Nitrate of Amyl in Sea Sickness.
Milk cure for Lead Colic.
Milkweed Juice for Raw Surfaces.
The Use of Snails in Medicine.
The Art of Prolonging Life.
The Deleterious Use of Alum in Bread and Baking
Powders.--Alum being Substituted for Cream of Tartar.
The Treatment of Hydrophobia.
New Use for Warts.
Removal of the Entire Scalp by Machinery.
The Probable Starting Point of the Yellow Fever.
Piedra.
Heredity.
Scientific Reliance on Soap.
The Medical Ice Hat.
Ventilation of Bed Rooms.
The Filtration of Drinking Water.
The Texas "Screw Worm."
VII.--THE PARIS EXHIBITION, SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS, ETC.
Success of American Exhibitors at Paris.
The Main Building at the Exhibition. With one full page illustration.
The French Industrial Exhibition of 1878.
Awards and Honors at Paris.
Ingram Rotary Press. One illustration.
A Grand World's Fair in New York.
A Mexican Exhibition.
Australia to have a World's Fair.
Closing of the French Exhibition.
Hydraulic Motors at the Exhibition. With two engravings.
The National Academy of Sciences.
The Official Reports of the Paris Exhibition.
American Society of Civil Engineers.
VIII.--INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.
Should the Nation Engage in Manufactures?
American Export of Agricultural Machinery.
Corundum.
American Made Goods Exhibited as European Manufactures.
The California Tea Fields.
An Odd Craft.
Progress of our Foreign Trade.
The Condition of Manufacturing Interests in Germany.
Labor in Chicago.
Apples for Europe.
Adulterated Graham Flour.
Addition to our List of Food Fishes.
Preservation of Milk.
Electrical Test for Oils.
Parsnips.
Russian Pottery. Two engravings.
Notes from the South.--Facts about the Cotton Worm.
The Mediterranean Trade.
American Competition in Great Britain.
Rapid Increase in French Woolen Industries.
The Rockport Granite Quarries.
Trade Mark Treaty with Brazil.
Early Manufacture of Steel Pens.
New and Stale Bread.
Leather from Sheep Stomachs.
New Source of Rubber.
A National Law Governing Adulteration Needed.
How to get Pure Teas.
Skilled Labor in New York City.
French Subsoil and Clearing Plow. One figure.
Opening for Trade in Madagascar.
Handling Grain in Buffalo.
The Blue Process of Copying Tracings.
We Buy of them that Advertise.
Unprofitable Agents.
Various Uses of Paper.
Improved Grinding Mill and Crusher. Two engravings.
The Cultivation of the Common Nettle.
The Economic Products of Seaweed.
The Japanese Wax Tree in California.
Preservation of Food by Gelatin.
Pearl Millet.
To Turn Oak Black.
Dairy and Poultry Produce in America.
Australian Gum Trees.
Frauds in Wine Making.
Removal of Iron Coloring from Liquors.
The Utilization of Iron Slag.
Relative Cost of Coal Transportation by Water and by Rail.
How to get Rid of Ants.
The Science of Milling.
IX.--PRACTICAL RECIPES AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Progress in England and America.
An Improvement on Tea Chromos.
A Correction.
The Stability of Modern Civilization.
Future Rifle Shooting.
"Bruce," the Manchester Fire Horse.
The Trial of the "Pyx."
Early Gold Payments.
Workingmen in England and France.
Washington Memorials in Northamptonshire. Three engravings.
Culinary Uses of Leaves.
A Remarkable Bank Robbery.--Scientific Safeguards Neglected.
Cleopatra's Needle.
A Steam Juryman.
Roads in Baden.
Indications of Progress.
Practical Education in Russia.
Table Forks.
The Cost of Insecurity.
Improved Copying Pencils.
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