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Propelling Attachment for Garden or Like Implements. (open access)

Propelling Attachment for Garden or Like Implements.

Patent for "a harness so constructed that it may be comfortably worn by the operator, male or female, and further to provide an adjustable attachment between the harness and the implement or machine, being so made that all the force or weight that the operator is capable of exerting may be brought to bear upon the implement to propel it, without unduly fatiguing the operator or rending the work disagreeable, and whereby further the work of propelling the implement or machine will be beneficial to the operator, inasmuch as the harness will compel the operator to assume an upright position and expand the lungs." (Lines 10-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1895
Creator: Wilson, Hampden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand Fertilizer-Distributer. (open access)

Hand Fertilizer-Distributer.

Patent for "improvements in hand fertilizer-distributers and seed-drills," (lines 19-20) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 30, 1891
Creator: Barbee, Napoleon B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Differential Mechanism for Automobiles (open access)

Differential Mechanism for Automobiles

Patent for improvements for differential mechanisms for automobiles, including a "means for transmitting power from the motor to the traction wheels of the machine".
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Maniscalco, Anthony S.
System: The Portal to Texas History