Resource Type

Combined Ruler and Blotter (open access)

Combined Ruler and Blotter

Patent for a combined ruler and blotter (used for writing with ink). Proposed improvement of basic design by being more compact, cheaper to make, and includes a way to tear paper along the ruler's edge.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Schmidt, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Producer. (open access)

Gas-Producer.

Patent for an improvement to a gas producing apparatus which makes gas continuously from "combustible material mixed with air and the subsequent combination of gases formed by the decomposition" (lines 13-15) of resulting gases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Hirt, Jules H.
System: The Portal to Texas History