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Improvement in Screw-Propulsion. (open access)

Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.

Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Wilson, Joseph Erwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders. (open access)

Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.

Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
Date: September 9, 1879
Creator: Richardson, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Sulky-Plows. (open access)

Improvement In Sulky-Plows.

This pantent was created for the construction and preperation of a sulky plow cultivator. The invention was created for new and mechanical improvements.
Date: April 9, 1878
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Apparatus for Drying Hides. (open access)

Improvment in Apparatus for Drying Hides.

Patent for "an improvement in apparatus for drying hides"
Date: May 9, 1876
Creator: Finnigan, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Solar-Time Instrument. (open access)

Solar-Time Instrument.

Patent for a new and improved solar-time instrument with "the telescopic tube provided at one end with a lens, and at the other end with a removable diaphragm having horizontal and vertical lines marked thereon" (page 2).
Date: September 9, 1879
Creator: Hayford, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History