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Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers. (open access)

Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers.

Patent for the "improvement in supplying air to furnaces on steamers" (lines 5-6), including illustration.
Date: December 20, 1859
Creator: Brandy, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing-Case. (open access)

Packing-Case.

Patent for new and improved shipping case to store and transport oysters so that they may be surrounded by ice in travel and not be subjected to a great amount of pressure or damaged during transit.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Clement, Thomas Houlten, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History