Resource Type

Degree Department

587 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Plant for Generating Electricity. (open access)

Plant for Generating Electricity.

Patent for a "simple, durable, compact, and reliable plant, house, or means operated by the force and energy of the wind without supervision or attention, and generating electricity and storing the same for use" (lines 10-14).
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Bowen, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Bath-Brush (open access)

Electric Bath-Brush

Patent for improvements to an electric brush so that it is "exceedingly effective in its operation and at the same time simple in construction, combining lightness with durability, and securing the best results medicinally to the user. A further object consists in providing a construction whereby the entire brush may be dismantled, so as to obtain access to the interior when necessary, and to permit of the brush being used as an ordinary bath-brush by simply removing the batteries" (lines 15-25).
Date: May 20, 1890
Creator: Williams, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dropper for Medicines (open access)

Dropper for Medicines

Patent for a dropper for medicines.
Date: January 20, 1903
Creator: Hutchings, George B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Insact Trap. (open access)

Electric Insact Trap.

Patent for an electric insect trap that highly efficient trap for electrocuting house flies and similar insects, include illustrations.
Date: January 20, 1914
Creator: Craig, Samuel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Fly-Trap. (open access)

Electric Fly-Trap.

Patent for improvement to fly traps. The improved fly trap electrocutes flies and other flying insects as they enter the trap. In the trap, there is a lamp that attracts flying insects.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Bass, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer (open access)

Draft-Equalizer

Patent for an improved three-horse equalizer for draft horses.
Date: February 20, 1883
Creator: Kerby, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Document-File. (open access)

Document-File.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive self-adjusting file mounted on a revoluble base allowing the operator to successively access the several sub-divisions including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Rich, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dispensing-Counter (open access)

Dispensing-Counter

Patent is for new way of dispensing and weighing material housed on store shelves. It saves time and labor putting items out.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Griffin, William Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drying and Stretching Frame (open access)

Drying and Stretching Frame

Patent for a frame used to stretch and dry fabrics such as curtains. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Hargrave, Thomas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drawers-Supporter. (open access)

Drawers-Supporter.

Patent for a new and useful drawers supporter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: James, Thomas S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Discharge-Tube for Fertilizer-Distributors. (open access)

Discharge-Tube for Fertilizer-Distributors.

Patent for a device to evenly dispense fertilizer to soil. This is an agricultural device.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Kerr, Oscar F.
System: The Portal to Texas History