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Fire-Escape.
Patent for improvements in fire-escapes “in which a rope forming part of the device, has its upper end attached within a window or other opening of a building and is connected with apparatus to raise and lower an ascending fireman or other person escaping from the building.” (Lines 16-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 7, 1891
Creator:
Rutledge, William O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Joint.
Patent for a flexible joint for rigid pipes that allows the pipes to be taken around a bend or moved around easily in the operation of a sand pump or hydraulic dredging machine.
Date:
July 7, 1908
Creator:
Brown, Martin William
System:
The Portal to Texas History