Resource Type

Weed - Exterminator (open access)

Weed - Exterminator

Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: McBride, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whip-Holder. (open access)

Whip-Holder.

Patent for a whip holder that locks the end of the whip into the holder, and lap-robes and other similar articles can also be held in the invention so they cannot be stolen.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Reeves, Fountain O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generating Machine. (open access)

Gas-Generating Machine.

Patent for "...an improved method of and means for generating hydrocarbon vapors for heating and lighting purposes; and it consists in the novel manner in which the process is carried out and in the novel construction and combination of parts comprising the generating apparatus..." (lines 18-24) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Mitchell, Francis L.
System: The Portal to Texas History