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Well Bucket. (open access)

Well Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the well-bucket, having the rabbeted opening in its bottom, and provided with the apertured cross-bars of the valve-rod passing through the apertures in said cross-bars and the opening in the bottom of the bucket, and the valve secured to the lower end of said rod" (lines 56-62).
Date: June 10, 1884
Creator: Foat, Robert H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Velocipede (open access)

Velocipede

Patent for a vehicle that is powered by foot and guided by hand by the occupants and is for the purpose of transporting one or more persons or articles over streets or smooth roads.
Date: September 16, 1884
Creator: Ellis, Robert Fuller & Norman, Cornelius Asbury
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger. (open access)

Post Hole Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design consists "[i]n a post-hole auger, the combination, with the tool-guiding uprights and their revolving gearing, of the tool-carrying pinion, with the tool-securing contrivance fastened to its under side between said guiding-uprights, said pinion being adapted to revolve with said guiding-uprights, and the platform with its lowering screw or screws geared with the tool-carrying pinion" (lines 74-82).
Date: December 23, 1884
Creator: Robinson, Isiah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Times. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 26, 1884 (open access)

The Weatherford Times. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 26, 1884

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 26, 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History