Resource Type

Crude-Oil-Refining Process. (open access)

Crude-Oil-Refining Process.

Patent for improvements in the crude oil refining processes and apparatuses. The invention focuses on creating an inexpensive and simplistic system that relies on temperature.
Date: January 25, 1921
Creator: Evans, Jewett G. P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Monkey-Wrench. (open access)

Monkey-Wrench.

Patent for a monkey wrench that "can be adjusted for different sizes of nuts by the same hand which is using the wrench...and which may also be used as a pipe wrench" (lines 16-21).
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Otey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printing Rule and Slug and Type-Form. (open access)

Printing Rule and Slug and Type-Form.

Patent for rules and slugs that are quickly and easily arranged and that lock securely to make a type form, including one illustration.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E.
System: The Portal to Texas History