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Improvement in Machines for Destroying Insects.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in insect destroyers and more particularly to that class especially adapted to the extermination of boll-weevils" (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 29, 1914
Creator:
Nail, Louis L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved measuring-wheel. This design "relates to the construction of an instrument whereby lineal measurements may be taken and automatically registered where the distance is greater than the circumference of the measuring-wheel. The invention consists of a graduated wheel in the slot of a bifurcated handle, and of an automatic registering attachment" (lines 7-14).
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
McCaleb, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder
Patent for a seeder. This invention relates to seed dropping mechanisms for corn planters. Illustration included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Mouser, Robert H., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History