Couch (open access)

Couch

Patent for a couch. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Hartshorn, Guy C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time-Alarm and Annunciator (open access)

Electric Time-Alarm and Annunciator

Patent for "a combined call and annunciator system by which any number of signals can be sent automatically or manually and various signals received through the annunciator, the apparatus serving to send signals to or from any number of distant points on the circuit at any time" (lines 17-23).
Date: April 4, 1890
Creator: Suren, Nathan H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch (open access)

Railway Switch

Patent for a railway switch. Illustrations included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Sydnor, Leslie A.
System: The Portal to Texas History