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Locomotive.
Patent for an improved locomotive or traction-engine, with a series of water-shells, each containing "a series of fire-flues, a feeding-water heater, a pipe discharging steam" (lines 118-121), and a double-action plunger-pump.
Date:
January 26, 1897
Creator:
McCallum, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Penholder.
Patent for a penholder that is worn on the finger and is an "open-ended hollow thimble with a detachable and reversible cap-piece" (lines 20-22). The pen-point can be unscrewed and screwed back in the opposite way so that the pen-point is inside the thimble, so the pen-point doesn't break in one's pocket.
Date:
January 26, 1897
Creator:
Ward, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Exterminating Boll-Weevil
Patent for an apparatus designed to exterminate boll weevils by distributing liquid insecticide along rows of plants. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 26, 1909
Creator:
Mahanay, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History