Improvement in Car-Axle Bearings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Axle Bearings.

Patent for improvement in car-axle bearings in which "it consists in a box having a chambered back for containing oil, and having grooves along the straight edges of its bearing-surface for receiving a wick, the ends of which extend through holes in the box into the oil reservoir.”
Date: December 3, 1878
Creator: Stratton, Asa E., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-planter. (open access)

Seed-planter.

Patent for a machine that can plant any kind or size of seed or grain at any desired distance apart.
Date: December 3, 1878
Creator: Hoshall, David W.
System: The Portal to Texas History