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Fire-Escape
Patent for "a fire-escape and observation-tower, which may be raised or extended at any point, or be lowered and compactly folded for transportation" (lines 7-10).
Date:
January 15, 1889
Creator:
Rüllmann, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Car.
Patent for improvements in railway car design to protect passengers against train robberies by a combination of "several walls of the compartment and doors connected therewith bullet-proof lining, and in providing several walls and doors, each with a series of port-holes" (lines 27-31) from which occupants can fire weapons in defense with accompanying illustrations.
Date:
January 8, 1889
Creator:
Warren, Gerald Patrick
System:
The Portal to Texas History