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Combined Educational Chart, Drawing-Board, and Writing-Desk. (open access)

Combined Educational Chart, Drawing-Board, and Writing-Desk.

Patent for "a combined desk and blackboard" (line 68) that includes illustrations.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Henderson, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Fish and Bed Plate for Railway Rails (open access)

Boltless Fish and Bed Plate for Railway Rails

Patent for "fish-plates and bed-plates so constructed that rails can be secured in place without the necessity of making holes in the ends of the rails [...]; and the object is to simplify rail-joints and make the ends of the abutting rails stronger and to repair broken rails" (lines 10-17).
Date: October 6, 1902
Creator: Crawford, William, R.
System: The Portal to Texas History