A multiple laser having one or more gaseous laser stages and one or more free electron stages is described. Each of the free electron laser stages is sequentially pumped by a microwave linear accelerator. Subsequently, the electron beam is directed through a gaseous laser, in the preferred embodiment, and in an alternative embodiment, through a microwave accelerator to lower the energy level of the electron beam to pump one or more gaseous lasers. The combination laser provides high pulse repetition frequencies, on the order of 1 kHz or greater, high power capability, high efficiency, and tunability in the synchronous production of multiple beams of coherent optical radiation.

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).

Patent for new "suspended cribs or cradles for the use of children" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in rotary cotton-choppers" (lines 4-5) that are of "the class of cotton-choppers which travel across the rows, and also to the class which use a revolving drum having blades or hoes spirally arranged on its periphery" (lines 13-17), including descriptions and illustrations.

Patent for a device which may be attached to the upper and lower sashes of a window to firmly lock them in position. The device is special because "the attachment to the upper sash does not project into the path of the lower sash nor interfere with its operation" (lines 16-19).

Patent for "an improved lock washer especially adapted for locking nuts" (lines 10-11) that was designed to "be interposed between the nut and a member to be clamped by the nut" (lines 14-16).

Patent for improvements in liquid fuel burner that generates gas from liquids that requires no labor or supervision.

Patent for lubricating packing, which lasts a long time under high pressure.

Patent for "a lock of novel construction wherein the keyholes at opposite sites of the door are placed out of alignment for preventing children, servants, and curious persons from looking or listening through the keyhole." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a machine that removes insects from cotton plants. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for raising journal-boxes on a railroad car to easily renew the brasses or do other necessary tasks.

Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient trace-carrier" (line 12) "capable of readily receiving and of securely holding the chain of a trace close to the back-band and of preventing the inner trace-chains form becoming hooked into each other when two horses are employed at a plow or the like" (lines 13-18).

Patent for a nut lock for railroad tracks, which will prevent rail bolts from unscrewing.

Patent for improvement in bale-ties, with description and illustrations.

Patent for regulating the width of the furrow-slice of a "sulky" or "wheel" plow, with illustration.

Patent for the improvement on plows so that the operator can "readily adjust the moldboard or shovel into any desired inclination" (lines 14-15). The clamp is also adjustable.

Patent for a post card stand, which turns by a crank mechanism to show all the postcards on the rack.

Patent for improvements in plows that will break and bed the soil at a single operation while it was customary for a plow to have to go over the soil at least twice in order to break the soil. This invention is also meant to conserve time and labor and cultivate the soil more thoroughly.

Patent for an improved thill coupling, one meant to "prevent the annoyance of nuts coming off, allowing the thill to come out of place" (lines 55-57). "It is also for the purpose of facilitating the changing of a pair of shafts for a tongue or a tongue for shafts" (lines 59-61).

Patent for "improvements in presses for compressing and baling hay or other fibrous material" (lines 9-10), with illustrations.

Patent for the construction of a wheel and gear rim that converts any ordinary vehicle wheel into a gear wheel.

Patent for improvements on governor for water-elevator to alleviate problems of waste of water from overage of water and also allows for self-regulation of the supply of water. Included are instructions and illustrations.

Patent for improvements in Ignition Devices. This device will assist in locating trouble when a multi-cylinder gasoline engine is not firing regularly and one cylinder is "missing".

Patent for improvements in Sample-Taking Devices, specially for drilling oil wells with the purpose of taking samples, which can be easily removed from the well without with-drawing the bit or drill stem.