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Wash Boiler. (open access)

Wash Boiler.

Patent for a new and improved laundry boiler. This design consists in "a partition at its lower end slightly above the bottom formed with a screw-threaded neck at its center, a perforated tube fitting with its lower end upon the neck and having its upper end closed, and a number of perforated triangular tubes upon the side of the boiler provided with stoppers at their upper ends and extending from the partition in the lower end of the boiler, and a rack consisting of rings connected at their upper edges by cross-pieces" (lines 76-86).
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Fountain, Henry Stephen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupler. (open access)

Car-Coupler.

Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Williamson, John A., JR.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Washer. (open access)

Dish-Washer.

Patent for a dish washer with a dish rack and outer tub connected to water pump, which sprays hot water on the dishes to clean them.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Weaver, Mary Jane
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Dallas Drugs] captions transcript

[News Clip: Dallas Drugs]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: September 5, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Site #91 - Church of the Visitation]

Photograph of the Church of the Visitation (Site #91) in Texas.
Date: April 5, 1993
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History