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18,565
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887
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Rescuing Texas History, 2019
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The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
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States
Decade
Month
Airship
Patent for a dirigible airship. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Bradford, William J. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Tight Heating-Stove
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Audiphone
Patent for a audiophone which reproduces sounds at their original volume and timbre through the use of diaphragms vibrated by an electric signal.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Baker, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Boiler-Feeder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic boiler feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Sharp, Joshua H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trousers Stretchers And Coat Hanger
Patent for a combined trousers stretcher and coat hanger. Illustration included.
Date:
September 11, 1906
Creator:
Bedinger, Singleton Berry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Angle-Bending Machine
Patent for angle-bending machine.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Dillon, Ivy Hancock
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Wax from Plants
Patent for an apparatus for separating the wax from plants. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Hill, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Plows.
Patent for a new type of gage for a running plow, that can be adjusted for a specific depth
Date:
December 17, 1901
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Device.
Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Brown, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Conductor
Patent for electric conductor with switch cord and plug especially designed for use with multiple electrical circuits, as with a telephone switchboard.
Date:
March 20, 1906
Creator:
Weir, Welby D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Bench Clamp And Dog.
Patent for a new and useful automatic bench clamp and dog.
Date:
May 10, 1898
Creator:
Rogers, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects
Patent for an apparatus for destroying insects. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1911
Creator:
Crow, William M. & Crow, Levi H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Popper
Patent for a corn popper. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 25, 1907
Creator:
Young, George B. & Young, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer.
Patent for a new conveyer design “which is particularly adapted to load or unload railroad-car wheels or other heavy material on and of cars” (Lines 13-15) including illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1902
Creator:
St. James, Henry Livingston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ash-Pan for Locomotives
Patent for
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Gee, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for a new means of separating air from cotton, expelling the air while the cotton is condensed and released for baling.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Hay-Press
Patent for an automatic hay press that ties three sides of the bale while in the press and the fourth outside of it.
Date:
March 14, 1911
Creator:
Parvin, William S. & Muse, Warwick J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap or Dip
Patent for a trap for small animals. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Morris, Leopold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for an aeroplane with a propeller, which is "pivotally mounted and adjustable into different positions relative to the planes in order to produce either a rising movement or thereof or a driving movement in a horizontal or other plane" (lines 26-30).
Date:
September 19, 1911
Creator:
Andrae, Ernest H.; Andrae, E. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for cooking by using superheated steam. “A boiler which is supported by a fire-box. An oven is mounted on the boiler and provide with a plurality of compartments and ventilators. A drip-pipe, and a pipe connected to the boiler and circulated through the fire-box and extended up to the oven, and provided with a plurality of valves for supplying the compartments of the oven with superheated steam.” (Page 2, line 25-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Harrington, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping Cage
Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Gordon, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c.
Patent for "an apparatus for emptying sandboxes of locomotives" (lines 13-14) "operated by compressed air to elevate and discharge sand, water, &c." (lines 10-11).
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Butler, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvesting Machine
Patent for a corn harvesting machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 13, 1909
Creator:
Tilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History