Support for Telegraph Line-Wires and the Like. (open access)

Support for Telegraph Line-Wires and the Like.

Patent for "supports for telegraph and telephone line wires, electric light line wires, and the like, and the object is to provide simple and highly efficient brackets for holding such wires securely in place ... so that the wires will not drop to the ground" (lines 10-18), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Wilson, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine. (open access)

Adding-Machine.

Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Brooks, Augustus J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for improvements to cultivators.
Date: May 21, 1901
Creator: Skeen, Virgil G.
System: The Portal to Texas History