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Improvement in Machines for Planting Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine to clear top soil and dispense seed into soil when moving forward, including illustration.
Date:
July 5, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Oven.
Patent for outdoor use of the Dutch oven and skillet converting the cover of the Dutch oven as a way to suspend frying pan or gridiron over coals to heat, including illustration.
Date:
July 12, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Excavating and Grading Machine.
Patent for a cultivating machine that pulverizes colds of soil using a revolving cylinder of blades, including illustration.
Date:
July 19, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Distributing Fertilizers.
Patent for the improvement of fertilizer-distributer which dispense fertilizers from a hopper with revolving arms that is mounted on top of a plow like machine, which would allow the fertilizers fall into the furrow. Including illustration.
Date:
September 27, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milam County
Map of Milam County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
June 12, 1868
Creator:
Martin, Joseph
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dumping-Platforms.
Patent for a new cart-loader design "for dumping earth into carts or other receptacles" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1873
Creator:
Atkinson, Jesse.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milam County
Map of Milam County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. The center of Milam County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
June 1873
Creator:
Lucas, A. L. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant-Traps.
Patent for catching burrowing insects, especially for large ants.
Date:
July 15, 1873
Creator:
Rubarth, Leander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Building Earth-Works.
Patent for frame-mounted grading machine mounted on casters or wheels with hinged platform.
Date:
December 2, 1873
Creator:
Morey, Harvey.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sawing-Machines.
Patent for improved sawing-machine, which can be operated either horizontally or vertically so that trees may be felled and cut up with one machine, the driving mechanism of which is in a protective housing.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Morey, Harvey & Bellah, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Spade-Cultivators
Patent for a rotary spade-cultivator that is secured to a frame, which is attached to the rear of a vehicle.
Date:
December 7, 1875
Creator:
Brodnax, David W., Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1876
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 29, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tug Attachments for Harness.
Patent for improving the tug-harness attachments on a horse harness to better lock straps in place.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Brodnax, David W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved bale-tie with a description of the tool and specifications for its usage, includes illustrations.
Date:
June 11, 1878
Creator:
Rutherford, William Bryson & Hawkins, Joel Turnham
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milam County
Map of Milam County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. The center of Milam County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1879~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1880
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 11, 1880
Creator:
Breeding, Enoch
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post-Hole Auger
New and useful improvement in Post-Hole Augers. With this construction the auger will its way easily and rapidly into any kind of soil.
Date:
November 2, 1880
Creator:
Hubby, Mead M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engineer's Level-Rod
Patent for an engineer's level-rod which introduces a peculiar manner of marking the scale upon the face of the rod.
Date:
November 30, 1880
Creator:
Lynch, Michael L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller.
Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk puller. This design utilizes "[a] pulling-wheel having radial jaws that are opened and closed by cam devices" when "[i]t is driven astride the [cotton] row, and will be found to operate rapidly and with absolute certainty. It is simple, durable, and may be constructed at a very small expense" (lines 79-84).
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Wilson, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engineer's Level-Rod.
Reissued patent for an improvement in engineer's level which introduces a novel manner of marking the scale upon the face of the rod.
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Lynch, Michael L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design is for "a cotton-planter, the vibrating agitator having radial flanges and lateral flanges upon its bow, and clamped to the under side of [a] rocking shaft by means of cuffs and [a] clamp-screw, in combination with [a] hopper having [a] removable adjustable bottom" (lines 62-67).
Date:
May 10, 1881
Creator:
Walton, Jacob Gipson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mary P. and H. J. Chamberlin to Ora Osterhout, January 21, 1882]
Letter from Mary P and H. J. Chamberlin to Ora Osterhout regarding news she had heard from the Osterhouts. Mary appreciated hearing from the family and told Ora that they should take good care of their mother. She included other small bits of gossip. Her husband wrote his own brief letter on the back and expressed his gratitude for the Osterhouts.
Date:
January 21, 1882
Creator:
Chamberlin, Mary P. & Chamberlin, H. J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for a new implement "for planting cotton-seed, cultivating the soil, and covering the soil" (lines 14-15) and corn (line 61) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
McCall, Duncan Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Engine.
Patent for a new and improved steam engine. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement, in connection with a cylinder having bearings for the piston-shaft at each end and steam and exhaust ports at opposite ends, of an axially-elongated piston having opposite spiral threads or ribs of gradually-decreasing pitch from the end at which the steam enters to the end at which it escapes" (lines 19-26).
Date:
July 3, 1883
Creator:
Wilson, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History