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Steam-Brake For Single-Truck Log-Loaders. (open access)

Steam-Brake For Single-Truck Log-Loaders.

Patent for a simple, durable, and cheap way of improving steam brakes, especially those for single trucks used for logging.
Date: January 20, 1914
Creator: Perego, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power-Transmitting Device. (open access)

Power-Transmitting Device.

Patent for new and useful improvements in Power-Transmitting Devices. "its object being to provide a device by means of which power taken from any suitable source may be economically transmitted and multiplied, for the purpose of driving machinery or other purposes."(lines 10-15)
Date: January 22, 1918
Creator: Montgomery, Edward F. & Burnham, Reuben B.
System: The Portal to Texas History