Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Burran, William Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tourist's Glass. (open access)

Tourist's Glass.

Patent for improvements to tourists' glasses, "intended for use to tourists, hunters, ranchmen, botanists, minerologists, and analogous purposes" (lines 25-27) including illustrations.
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Faehrmann, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trephine. (open access)

Trephine.

Patent for an improved, simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient trephine that is easily assembled and takes up little space. It retains better results than other trephines.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: MacKenzie, Joseph Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Fender. (open access)

Plow-Fender.

Patent for a plow fender, which can be attached to the plow without harming the plow tooth.
Date: June 21, 1910
Creator: Skidmore, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History