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Automatic Fire Extinguisher.
Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design is "to provide for automatically putting out a fire in any building in which [the] apparatus may be located, upon the temperature in said building or room reaching any predetermined degree. This result is accomplished by the action of an expansible fluid—such as mercury—in a contained vessel, which actuates certain . . . mechanism, causing the structure to be flooded with water or with a fire-extinguishing gas or fluid" (lines 22-32).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Fuller, Wily Scott
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 2133: Graf, Edward (Minor)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Graf, Edward (Minor) and Barbara Erhardt (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1890-12-30/1900-11-10
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 76, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 30, 1890
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 2641, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 30, 1890
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 244, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 30, 1890
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
El Paso International Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. TENTH YEAR, No. 308, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 30, 1890
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reamer.
Patent for a new and improved reamer. This design "relates to reamers for use in boring artesian wells and other similar purposes; and it consists, essentially, of a hollow cylindrical body adapted to be attached to a suitable driving-head and provided with peripheral expansion-cutters operated by an internal plunger" (lines 11-17).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Abilene City Taxes, 1890]
Receipt for taxes paid to the City of Abilene on property owned by Henry Sayles for the year 1890. The receipt includes the list of properties and their assessed value and an itemized inventory of the taxes paid.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Thompson, W. J.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Taylor County Property Taxes, 1890]
Receipt for taxes paid on property owned by Henry Sayles in Taylor County, Texas for the year 1890. The receipt includes the total value of the properties and an inventory of the taxes owed.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Cunningham, Tom J.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 284, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 30, 1890
Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snap-Hook
Patent for a snap hook in order to "provide a hook of simple construction that shall be securely locked when in use" (p. 2)
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Adams, Don B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongs.
Patent for new and improved tongs. This design "is especially adapted for the recovery of tools, broken sections, stones, or débris from artesian-well borings" (lines 54-57). It consists "of a solid or tubular shank provided with spring-metal tines, a ring to slide thereon, and a hollow weight sliding on the tube adapted to drive the ring down upon the tines" (lines 12-16).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "consist[s] of a rectangular frame, a central integral transverse bar provided at its upper and lower edges with pairs of spaced-apart superficial ribs having central aligning bores, a spring-pressed bolt mounted in one of said ribs, adapted at its inner end to take into the opposite rib and provided at its outer end with a knob or head, a pintle mounted in the lower pair of ribs, a tongue pivoted upon the pintle, said tongue having its upper end reduced to fit between the upper pair of ribs and provided with an eye for the reception of the bolt" (lines 82-94).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Harbour, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine.
Patent for a type writing machine that is small and portable, including illustrations.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Depuy, Gilbert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine for the Blind
Patent for "an improvement in machines for the production of writings for the blind, under what is technically termed the point system" (lines 8-11).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Sthreshley, Lizzie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drill.
Patent for a new and improved well-drill. This design consists "[i]n a drill, the cylinder closed at its upper end by a head with a stuffing-box and a tapering opening and provided at its lower end with suitable cutters, in combination with an operating-rod passing through the upper head and a weight, said operating-rod being provided with spring-arms adapted to engage and raise said weight within the cylinder and at the top thereof automatically to release it" (lines 27-35).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher for stretching wire to build fences.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Burdick, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 276, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 30, 1890
Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 46, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 30, 1890
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 214, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 30, 1890
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
El Paso International Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. TENTH YEAR, No. 284, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 30, 1890
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 31, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 30, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Austin Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 44, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 30, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 30, 1890
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History