Resource Type

Try-Square. (open access)

Try-Square.

Patent for try squares which provides certain improvement in try squares. "The aim of the present improvement is to provide means for continuing a scribe or mark around the edge of a board or piece of timber to correspond to a main indication accurately on both sides without changing the position of the square, and, further, to have the main blade of the square constructed for gaging or ruling by the provision therein of apertures to receive the point of a pencil or other marking device" (lines 9-18).
Date: October 7, 1902
Creator: Pugh, Samuel Ress
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Drier. (open access)

Shoe-Drier.

Patent for a device to help dry and warm shoes.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: McIver, James William
System: The Portal to Texas History