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Fence-Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Fence-Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a simple and practical fence-wire stretcher that stretches "fence-wire in the construction of fences and also taking up the slack in the wire when it sags at any point throughout the line of fence, the device being simple in construction and easily connected and disconnected from the post, as circumstances require" (lines 14-20).
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Baugh, Edward Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device-for-Cooling-Milk-or-Butter (open access)

Device-for-Cooling-Milk-or-Butter

Patent for a device used for cooling milk or butter by means of evaporation so that there is a constant circulation of cool air around the milk or butter.
Date: January 17, 1893
Creator: Wilder, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History