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Base Ball Game. (open access)

Base Ball Game.

Patent for a new and improved board game. This design "consists of a game-board marked out to represent a baseball field and provided with a series of marked depressions and a number of baffle-pins, guideways, or gutters being arranged in either side of the board, and a back-stop being arranged at the upper end of the board, provision being made for imparting a proper inclination to the board and for the propulsion of marbles through the gutters or troughs" (lines 13-22).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: Maxcy, John Wharton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Head or Tail Light for Automobiles. (open access)

Head or Tail Light for Automobiles.

Patent for head or tail light for automobiles with adaptations of optical signaling and lighting devices used to make the vehicle and its intended change of drive direction and other traffic signals visible at night. This design also includes indicia, or specific distinguishing marks noting right and left turns.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Heartsill, Isaac Newton.
System: The Portal to Texas History