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Rescuing Texas History, 2019
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The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
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States
Decade
Month
Elevating-Truck
Patent for an elevating truck. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 28, 1911
Creator:
Sellers, Jacob L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dropper for Medicines
Patent for a dropper for medicines.
Date:
January 20, 1903
Creator:
Hutchings, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Heater for Metal Workers.
Patent for a electric heater for heating metal in preparation for welding. Consists of a bath of sal ammonia and water with a layer of graphite on top that the metal is placed into and then electric current is turned on which heats the metal to a weldable temperature.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Luthy, Joseph Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Clock.
Patent for new and useful improvements in electrically operated clocks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1900
Creator:
Iversen, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Bell-Ringer
Patent for an electric bell ringer that is "operated either by electric wires from a distance or by merely pressing a push-button" (lines 11-13).
Date:
October 24, 1905
Creator:
Hall, Ira W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Clock
Patent for an electric clock. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Iversen, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in elevated railways, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Program-Clock.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Time-Reminder Clocks" (lines 5-7) which are "designed for service in furnishing notice to the user of acts to be performed at previously-specified times or periods" (lines 12-14).
Date:
September 24, 1901
Creator:
Dubinski, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Circuit -Closing Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in electric circuit closing devices.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Newman, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Light Support
Patent for a support for electric lights attached to a cord circuit. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 10, 1908
Creator:
Thevenet, Philip N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Furnace.
Patent for a new and useful electric furnace.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Clark, George Greenleaf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevating Brick Car
Patent for an elevating brick car. This invention "is to improve construction of elevating brick cars or trucks and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient car or truck designed for use in a brick yard for carrying bricks from a machine to a yard, kiln, or drier" (line 11-17). Illustrations included.
Date:
April 19, 1904
Creator:
Zilker, Andrew J.; Tidmarsh, Albert L. & Armstrong, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Ore-Concentrator
Patent for an electric ore concentrator which offers "an improved method and means for electrically concentrating and separating various metallic substances from their respective ores" (lines 14-17), including explanations and illustrations.
Date:
March 26, 1901
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Cleaning Apparatus
Patent for a dry cleaning apparatus. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 10, 1912
Creator:
White, Edward Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator
Patent for an elevator which locks itself should the hoisting cable break. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 18, 1911
Creator:
Ballard, Silas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevating-Truck.
Patent for invention to "improve the construction of elevating-trucks and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive apparatus adapted to be readily moved from one place to another and capable of enabling bales, boxes and the like to be readily lifted from the ground or other supporting-surface and raised to a convenient position for loading such freight upon a wagon or other conveyance" (p. 1, lines 10-18).
Date:
September 14, 1900
Creator:
Penick, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Trough
Patent for a feeding trough. This invention is designed to prevent the waste of feed by collecting the feed pushed out during feeding. Illustration included.
Date:
December 22, 1903
Creator:
Butz, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drop Propeller for Boats
Patent for a drop propeller for boats. This design is to allow boats to easily cross reefs. Illustration included.
Date:
August 17, 1909
Creator:
Stribling, Franklin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Attachment For Pneumatic Conveyers
Patent for a feeding attachment for pneumatic conveyers. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 8, 1904
Creator:
Sonendrinker, Edward Thomas & Coleman, Matthew Walton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Connection for Automobile-Lamps.
Patent for electric connection for automobile lamps that has an improvement in electric connections or plugs for incandescent electric-lamps for automobiles.
Date:
September 11, 1917
Creator:
Kearby, John Gallatin & Robinson, Zephaniah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator
Patent for elevator
Date:
November 27, 1911
Creator:
Mayes, Aceph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Mechanism for Cotten-Gins
Patent related to cotton ginning plants, providing an improvement to the "mechanism controlling the feeding of the cotton supplied to the gins" (lines 13-14).
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Riemenschneider, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drop-Feed for Seeders and Planters.
Patent for a drop feed device that dispenses individual seeds (particularly peas) for planting. It attaches to a planter, dropping seeds when activated by the motion of the planter's wheels. A seed guard prevents clogging.
Date:
September 25, 1917
Creator:
Johnson, Mat P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-heated steering-rim
Patent for electric-heated steering-rim
Date:
August 14, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Reuben. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History