Resource Type

Spring-Clamp. (open access)

Spring-Clamp.

Patent for a spring clamp "for suspending small articles -- such as towels, dishcloths, and napkins -- and which may also be employed for hanging window-curtains, portières, goods in show-windows, and similar purposes" (lines 7-12)
Date: January 6, 1903
Creator: Westbrook, Nancy Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Signal (open access)

Telephone Signal

Patent for a telephone signals. This inventions is a switchboard drop of the visual signal for magneto system at a central office. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Schuessler, Gustavus W.
System: The Portal to Texas History