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Car-Coupling
Patent for an improvement to automatic car couplings with detail description and illustrations.
Date:
February 21, 1888
Creator:
King, Charles R.; Aten, Aaron P. & Floyd, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Switch.
Patent for a new and improved railroad switch. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and safe switch adapted for operation by trip-bars on a locomotive engine or car to open or close the switch, and without injury to the rails or actuating mechanism of the switch or danger of derailing the cars" (lines 7-14).
Date:
February 21, 1888
Creator:
Peetz, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for an improvement to the Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper with detailed illustrations.
Date:
February 21, 1888
Creator:
Carley, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History