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Corn-Husker.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn huskers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 29, 1899
Creator:
Stahl, Adolf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Brace.
Patent for a new and useful bed brace, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1898
Creator:
Stoermer, Alexander Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Level.
Patent for an instrument to determine a level at widely distant points or determining inclinations and which may be correctly read under conditions where a level cannot be held erect. Also known as hydrostatic leveling, this instrument is comprised of flexibly connected liquid containers that are spaced apart at certain distances.
Date:
August 17, 1920
Creator:
Kaspar, John & Beran, Rud F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-beam, the slotted and braced standard, and the adjustable land-bar, of the winged attachment formed with perforated lugs, the plow-point formed with upper and lower extensions and secured to said attachment" (lines 95-100).
Date:
August 21, 1888
Creator:
Wied, August & Lürssen, Henrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributor
Patent for a device which destroys cotton worms "in which the cylinders [holding the poison] are adapted to be both vertically and laterally adjustable with respect to the height of the cotton and width of the rows" (lines 18-21).
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Pressly, Thompson
System:
The Portal to Texas History