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The War of the Rebellion: Army Records
5
United States Geological Survey Reports
5
Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
4
National reporter system. United States series
4
The Federal Reporter
4
Academic Year 1885
3
Academic Year 1886
3
Texas State Department of Education Biennial Report
3
Geological Survey bulletin
1
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Notes of the Geology of North California
A report about a complex group of mountain ridges in Northern California and Oregon. It discusses the geology of North California.
Date:
1886
Creator:
Diller, J. S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
On the Relation of the Laramie Molluscan Fauna to That of the Succeeding Fresh-Water Eocene and Other Groups
A report about strata found in Utah and Wyoming which contains fresh water types of fossil molluscan forms which share some characteristics of the Laramie Group.
Date:
1886
Creator:
White, Charles A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Subsidence of Fine Solid Particles in Liquids
A report about the phenomenon of subsidence which is divided into parts.
Date:
1886
Creator:
Barus, Carl
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Physical Properties of the Iron-Carburets: Third Paper
A report about magnetization and homogeneity as it pertains to Iron-Carburets.
Date:
1886
Creator:
Barus, Carl & Strouhal, Vincent
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Clevis.
Patent for a new and improved clevis. This design "is to provide a clevis with a series of attaching-loops whereby the line of draft may be changed as circumstances may require, to bring the line of draft to either side of the plow-beam, or above or below the same, and to provide a clevis with a centrally-located attaching-loop, to be used where a direct or central draft is needed" (lines 11-18).
Date:
January 26, 1886
Creator:
Dunn, Henry Frankling
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved band stretcher. This design "relates to improvements in band-stretchers in which a windlass, crank, and ratchets operate in conjunction with a sliding clamp; and the object of [the] improvement is to provide a device with which the ends of a band may be drawn together and held for the purpose of lacing" (lines 15-21).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Lawrence, Joseph A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a new baling press design with description of parts and their functions, with illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
Bryan, Walter S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses
Patent for the construction of an improved odorless apparatus for dry out-houses, including explications and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame or support, the lever-arms, the winch and the ropes connecting the said arms thereto, the follower, the toggle-jointed levers connecting the said follower with the frame, and the rods connecting the joints of the said levers to the lever-arms, with the follower and the fulcrumed levers, having their inner ends connected to the follower and their outer ends connected to [a different] follower whereby the said followers move simultaneously when the winch is turned" (lines 83-94).
Date:
March 30, 1886
Creator:
Robburts, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for an improvement for the Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator by removing dirt, weeds, and grass from the sides of the row. Included with this are detailed illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1886
Creator:
Flewellen, Anthony, Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).
Date:
June 8, 1886
Creator:
Harrell, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Gabbros and Associated Hornblende Rocks Occurring in the Neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland
From introduction: The present paper is intended as a contribution to our knowledge of a particular phase of metamorphism in eruptive rocks, i.e., that one which is dependent on the secondary development of hornblende by the paramorphism or pseudomorphism of pyroxene.
Date:
1886
Creator:
Williams, George Huntington
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Anti-Friction Wagon Slide.
Patent for a new and improved anti-friction wagon slide. This design "consists of flat side pieces provided with bolt-holes near their ends, and connected to diametrically-opposite points of nearly-cylindrical end pieces, which have holes through their axes for the reception of the roller-shaft. The recess is so formed that the lower portion of the end pieces shall bear against its ends when the frame is put in place. This arrangement, together with the bolts through the corners of the frame and the coupling-tongue, prevents any tendency of the frame to displacement" (lines 42-54).
Date:
July 27, 1886
Creator:
Jowell, George Ratcliff.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Appliance for Training Horses.
Patent for a new and improved appliance for training horses. This design "consists, essentially, in a leg-halter composed of chains or ropes connected by a common ring, or otherwise, and connected with gyves or shackles to encircle the pastern of each leg, a yoke or frame placed upon the withers, or forward or back thereof, and provided with a clamp, and a band passing through the clamp and down to one of the shackles, or to the horse's leg, the other end being carried to a convenient point to be passed by the trainer or attendant" (lines 9-20).
Date:
August 10, 1886
Creator:
Dodge, Israel Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forcing Beer from Kegs.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for forcing beer from kegs. This design "relates to an improved method of keeping atmospheric pressure upon beer or other aerated liquid contained in a keg or similar receptacle, so as to prevent the same from becoming stale or flat from the evaporating of its dissolved gas. It consists in improvements in the apparatus by means of which the above-stated result is accomplished; and it further consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 16-25).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Surratt, George & Heyman, Harry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists of "the frame, the arms or standards pivoted to the said frame and carrying the chopping hoes or plows, the rock-shafts having the arms connected to the standards or [other] arms, and the [third] arms, and the rotating crank-shaft connected to the [third] arms, whereby the standards or arms will be caused to alternately approach and recede from each other as the machine advances" (lines 52-61).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Basham, Wesley Houston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Sweep.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton sweep. This design "is to provide an improved sweep for the cultivation of corn, cane, and cotton plants while they are young, which shall be capable of adjustment to plow-stocks of any class; to provide removable wings which can be applied or detached when it is desired to throw the dirt or soil to either the right or left; and to provide a removable point which can be replaced when it is worn out with another point of similar construction and thus render the sweep as good as new and save the farmer the cost of a new sweep" (lines 16-27).
Date:
September 28, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, Samuel Timothy & Babb, John Hendrick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Preserving Food
Patent for an improvement in the Fumigating Composition for Preserving and Purifying Purposes using combustible compositions.
Date:
September 28, 1886
Creator:
Radam, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter and Chopper.
Patent for planting and chopping cotton.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Pitts, Lee Paschal
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "has for its object the production of a simple, cheap, and effective device whereby the ants are confined to a space within the circle of the trap, speedily captured, and exterminated. It consists in a trap constructed with a circular flanged pit provided with tubes leading therefrom to a central ant-receptacle; also, in the details of construction of the trap" (lines 8-16).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Barnes, Robert Hanson & Salles, George Camiel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Commode.
Patent for an integrated air-venting commode.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Bardon, Prosper
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Ship.
Patent for air ship design lifted by balloon with vertical adjustable sails. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Appling, Marby P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wardrobe and Book-Case.
Patent for a combined bookcase and wardrobe cabinet, with illustrations. The purpose of the bookcase and wardrobe cabinet is to be "used as a bookcase, wardrobe, or show-case at will" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 30, 1886
Creator:
Schmidt, Julius Friedrich
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination of the main wheel and shaft, a dish-shaped disk mounted on the shaft, the inner side of said disk having a series of bolt-heads rigidly secured thereto, the bolts extending inward laterally and being provided with threaded ends, the main wheel being provided with openings for the reception of said bolts ends and the adjusting-nuts on both sides of said wheel" (lines 11-19).
Date:
November 30, 1886
Creator:
Tyus, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History