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Improvement in Station-Indicators. (open access)

Improvement in Station-Indicators.

Patent for improvements in railroad-station indicators to indicate to passengers the next stations and the distances between them.
Date: October 11, 1875
Creator: Harris, Pliny H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers. (open access)

Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.

Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date: April 11, 1876
Creator: Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes. (open access)

Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.

Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1874
Creator: Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System: The Portal to Texas History