[Photograph of Buildings in Big Spring, Texas]

Copy negative of a postcard with images of four buildings in Spring, Texas: the YMCA, Big Spring, Texas & Pacific Depot, and Methodist Church. It was postmarked August 25, 1911.
Date: March 29, 1973
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoke-Consumer. (open access)

Smoke-Consumer.

Patent for a device used by locomotives that "will cause the smoke to be returned from the stack to the fire-box until it is entirely consumed" (lines 11-13), condenses exhaust steam, and heats the water in the tender. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 29, 1892
Creator: Hadlock, Edson J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History