Resource Type

Car-Seat (open access)

Car-Seat

Patent for "an inexpensive form of car-seat, wherein the parts are so arranged that the back of the seat may be adjusted to almost any angle desired, a leg or foot rest, which also may be adjusted to suit the convenience of the occupant of the seat" (lines 7-13).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Goelet, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Door. (open access)

Car Door.

Patent for a new and improved door for railroad cars. This design consists in "a car having a door-opening, top and bottom tracks, and perpendicular door-posts, one post provided with a series of recesses in its side next to the opening and the other having recesses in its outer side or side nearest the end of the car . . . the door sliding on said tracks and having forwardly-projecting cleats on its front edge to enter the recesses in the first-named post, and provided on its inner side at its opposite end with cleats projecting toward its front edge to enter the recesses in second-named strip" (lines 83-95).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Goelet, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeding Attachment for Disk Harrows (open access)

Seeding Attachment for Disk Harrows

Patent for "improvements in seeding attachments for disk harrows, whereby the operation of harrowing the stubble and seeding-grain may be accomplished simultaneously" (lines 10-14).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Rogers, Jonathan Judson & Kennedy, Oliver Sylvester
System: The Portal to Texas History