Tarrant County

Cadastral map of Tarrant County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some boundaries and grid lines are marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: November 1856
Creator: Arlitt, F. H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion (open access)

Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion

Patent for converting reciprocating into rotary motion by using “two vertically moving racks with a cog wheel on a small shaft between them which gears into the teeth of the racks” (lines 16-19), includes illustration.
Date: November 1, 1859
Creator: Harper, C. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History