Improved Side-Saddle. (open access)

Improved Side-Saddle.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1870
Creator: Smith, Fenwick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie. (open access)

Railway Tie.

Patent for a new and improved railway-tie. This design "is to produce a simple and inexpensive tie which may be easily secured in a road-bed and to which the rails may be solidly and conveniently fastened and which is also adapted to be used in connection with wooden sleepers, being constructed so that it may be easily placed in position between wooden sleepers without tearing up the rails" (lines 9-16).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Budington, Albert G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Note Register (open access)

Note Register

Patent for a note register. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Winn, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History