Cotton Harvester. (open access)

Cotton Harvester.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvester. This design's "object is to provide thimbles which are adapted to be placed over the fingers and thumbs of a person, so as to provide artificial nails, whereby the cotton may be removed from the plants expeditiously, and which may be worn with comfort" (lines 18-23).
Date: December 30, 1884
Creator: Winzenried, Godfrey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps. (open access)

Improvement in Pumps.

Patent for improvement in the means by which cotton plants are watered, protected from pesticides and fires. It provides for a mechanism by which poison and water may be more easily distributed to the plants.
Date: July 30, 1878
Creator: Helmecke, Friederich Andreas
System: The Portal to Texas History