Resource Type

Lard-Press. (open access)

Lard-Press.

Patent for a lard press, which is easy to use and inexpensive to make.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Harman, Effie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester (open access)

Cotton Harvester

Patent for Cotton Harvester
Date: December 12, 1916
Creator: Lovejoy, Daniel B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Bone, David R.
System: The Portal to Texas History