Screw. (open access)

Screw.

Patent for a new and improved screw. This design consists in "[a] screw, the body and shank of which are of corresponding diameter throughout their length, the shank terminating in a rounded end, and the shank and body being provided with a longitudinal straight channel extending throughout their lengths, one of the terminal shoulders of the channel being removed" (lines 4-10).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Ericson, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trunk-Strap Fastener. (open access)

Trunk-Strap Fastener.

Patent for an inexpensive and simple trunk strap fastener meant to "insure a strong tightening of the same without resorting to the old laborious method of buckling the strap about the baggage, while at the same time the invention also contemplates the employment of a specific arrangement of the strap about the article being bound therewith, in combination with the fastener proper whereby a stronger and more efficient strapping is effected" (lines 16-25).
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Webb, William James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Log-Hauling Locomotive. (open access)

Log-Hauling Locomotive.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in log hauling locomotives, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 7, 1898
Creator: Fletcher, William Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, June 12, 1899 (open access)

The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, June 12, 1899

Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 12, 1899
Creator: Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History