Resource Type

Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for "an automatic clothes washer and soaper whereby the clothes are soaped and cleansed by one and the same operation." (Lines 18-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Rylander, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Bar-Supporting Clamp. (open access)

Tongue-Bar-Supporting Clamp.

Patent for a clamp that holds the hammers in a piano. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for an improved turning plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 3, 1897
Creator: Sevier, Samuel G.
System: The Portal to Texas History