Resource Type

States

Month

Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for new and useful multi-functional improvements in stretchers, specifically wire stretchers, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Lowe, Elijah J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surveying Instrument. (open access)

Surveying Instrument.

Patent for new and improved surveying instrument for use "in calculating the distance between the point of 'setting up' and the target, without the use of the usual linear chain" (lines 12-15). Illustration and instruction included.
Date: March 7, 1916
Creator: Adams, J. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History