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Windmill-Regulator (open access)

Windmill-Regulator

Patent for a windmill regulator, specifically windmill breaks "to be used in connection with a windmill placed upon a tower in the usual manner and having the controlling-wire depending therefrom to be drawn upon for stopping the pumping mechanism and to be released for allowing it to resume its operation" (lines 22-28), including illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1900
Creator: Rohlf, Claus H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire Setting and Cooling Machine. (open access)

Tire Setting and Cooling Machine.

Patent for a tire setting and cooling machine.
Date: April 10, 1900
Creator: Horn, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Apparatus. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in “gas-machines in which the gas is generated from calcium carbid; in which the gas will be thoroughly washed before passing to the distributing-pipe, thus affording a pure white light, and further to provide a means for running off coal-tar that may gather on the top of the water in the machine.” (Lines 9-18) Illustration is included.
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Metzger, Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History