Resource Type

Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Link, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench (open access)

Pipe-Wrench

Patent for a pipe wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Lubke, Ernest F. & Reed, Edmund C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Producing Furnace (open access)

Gas-Producing Furnace

Patent for a gas producing furnace that is "highly efficient in the combustion of slack coal, lignite, and other gas producing material" (lines 12-14).
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Gamer, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History