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Shawl Strap.
Patent for a new and improved shawl strap. This design "relates to shawl, book, and other straps, and has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient article, which can be used with packages of any size, and fastened thereto easily and quickly without applying buckles to the ends of the straps" (lines 8-13).
Date:
August 19, 1884
Creator:
Tharp, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Newspaper-File.
Patent for improvements in newspaper-holders by using a long metallic “piece bent at its upper end to form a spring and a means of suspension for the holder, and also bent at its lower end to form a similar spring and a hand-grasp, an upper and a lower loop connected to the bent ends of the metallic piece, and a retaining-tongue pivotally connected to the lower loop and having a hooked end for engaging the upper loop” (lines 82-89) to hold the newspaper. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 20, 1891
Creator:
Jaehnig, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Newspaper File.
Patent for a new and improved newspaper file. This design "is adapted and designed to be laid upon a table or placed in the usual rack or suspended by a hook, and . . . it may be held in one hand by means of its handle at the base while perusing the paper" (lines 17-22). It consists, "with a standard formed at or near its upper and lower ends . . . with a suitable perforation extending through the same from the back to the front thereof, of springs arranged upon the back of the standard, one near each end thereof and each formed at its free end with an eye" (lines 22-28).
Date:
July 26, 1892
Creator:
Jaehnig, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Desk Receptacle.
Patent for a "novel, convenient, and ornamental bottle or receptacle, adapted to contain ink, a sponge, or the like, combined with a pin-cushion and a pen-wiper" (lines 11-14), with illustrations.
Date:
January 17, 1893
Creator:
Carolan, Eugene P.; Terrell, Edward H. & Terrell, James R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brackett Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1896
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brackett Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1897
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound for Closing Punctures in Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for "a liquid compound for closing punctures in inflated wheel-tires." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1897
Creator:
Lynman, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Tongue Support.
Patent for a shoe tongue with a backing support to keep it from slipping down or sideways, which is held in place by the shoelaces.
Date:
July 2, 1907
Creator:
Thomas, Robert P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brackett Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1909
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Hook
Patent for a wire clothes hook that attaches to walls.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Denny, Roscoe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marine Propulsion
Patent for a new propelling device attached to a marine vessel, including illustrations.
Date:
March 24, 1914
Creator:
Beeson, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie
Patent for a railroad tie “which is so constructed as to enable the rails to have resiliency” (lines 16-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 9, 1915
Creator:
Shearer, Frederick C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Molding Apparatus
Patent for Molding Apparatus
Date:
September 12, 1916
Creator:
Shearer, Frederick C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie Mold
Patent is for new molds to hold in place railway ties inexpesively.
Date:
September 19, 1916
Creator:
Shearer, F. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rod-Lifting Tool.
Patent for a gripping device for large metal rods.
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Miller, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie.
Patent for an invention relating to the railway tie that aims to produce "a tie which is adapted to be constructed of reinforced concrete" (lines 14-16). Other objectives and illustrations of invention are included.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
Shearer, Frederick C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutlery-Sharpener.
Patent for a cutlery sharpener "which may be used for dressing down the edges of knives," "may be employed in the kitchen to rapidly condition kitchen knives," (line 16, lines 18-20) and create different types of beveled edges on a blade. It provides instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 18, 1918
Creator:
Ball, Ewart M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Recorder.
Patent for recording instruments to use in connection with automobiles to record the speed of conveyance during the period of travel.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Bowdish, Harry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ignition System for Gas-Engines.
Patent for improvements to ignition system for gas internal combustion engines that is simple, compact and serves as "a combination coil, distributer, interrupter and condenser for use in connection with storage batteries and low tensioned magnetos not timed to the engine shaft."
Date:
September 14, 1920
Creator:
Kelly, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brackettville Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1932
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Botella Creek Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date:
1941
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Maverick County, Texas
Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, ranches, tanks, power transmission lines, pipelines, gas fields, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. A polyconic projection, 1927 North American Datum. "Horizontal control by U.S. C. and G. S. 10000 foot grid based upon Texas (South Central) system of plane coordinates."
Date:
January 1942
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Plant Industry.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey, Maverick County, Texas
Text describes the climate, agricultural history, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, productivity ratings, native vegetation, irrigation, and soil morphology and genesis for Maverick County, Texas.
Date:
January 1942
Creator:
Smith, H.M. (Howard Malcolm); Marshall, R. M. (Richard Moon) & Mowery, I. C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spofford Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date:
1944
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History