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Autographic Register. (open access)

Autographic Register.

Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Norcross, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Preparing and Tempering Slurry for Portland Cement. (open access)

Process of Preparing and Tempering Slurry for Portland Cement.

Patent for improvements in the process of preparing and tempering slurry for Portland cement by expedite the process of production and to produce a uniform quality of cement. Detailed instructions included. No illustration.
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Kalteyer, George H.
System: The Portal to Texas History