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Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders. (open access)

Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders.

Patent for new and improvements in Combined Pipes and Cigar-Holders which consists in "forming or constructing the pipe with an intermediate chamber which serves as a receptacle for a sponge or other absorbent porous material." (Lines 15-20) Illustrations are included.
Date: December 5, 1871
Creator: Bond, Virgil A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse Hoes and Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Horse Hoes and Cultivators.

Patent for new horse hoe for cultivating crops. Hoe includes circular frame, plows, rollers, caster-wheels, etc.
Date: March 26, 1878
Creator: Brown, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History