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[Letter from W.H. Abrams to K.K. Legett - December 19, 1899]
Letter from W.H. Abrams of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company to K.K. Legett, concerning obtaining a road crossing over railroad tracks on his land.
Date:
December 19, 1899
Creator:
Abrams, W. H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Planter, Chopper, And Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in "combined cotton planters, choppers, and cultivators" (line 9-11).
Date:
December 6, 1898
Creator:
Albreekt, Niklaus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door.
Patent for "an improved freight car door so supported that it will not be shaken or jarred off and can be easily opened and closed at all times no matter how heavily loaded the car may be." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 26, 1895
Creator:
Allen, Thomas C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Compressor.
Patent for gas compressors for ice and refrigeration machines, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 4, 1891
Creator:
Ambrose, Joseph D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment.
Patent for an automatic fan that attaches to a rocking chair or cradle and rotates as the chair or cradle rocks. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Bailey, Israel S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator.
Patent for a station-indicator for trolley cars meant to "produce an automatic apparatus of this kind which is worked by the movement of the car and in which a map is employed, which is moved in such a way that the various points at which the car stops will always be correctly indicated" (lines 13-18).
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Baker, Artemas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protecting Alarm-Circuit.
Patent for a circuit to be connected to a security alarm so that when the circuit is broken, the alarm will sound. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Barriclow, Irvin E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Draft of Transfer of Land from Sayles and Bassett to Arthur Swayne]
Document affirming the sale of land from Mary E. Sayles and B. H. Bassett to Arthur Swayne and affirming the transfer of Swayne's debts originally owed to Bassett and Sayles over to A. P. Green.
Date:
April 1898
Creator:
Bassett, Benjamin H.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Transfer of Land from Sayles and Bassett to Arthur Swayne]
Notarized document affirming the sale of land from Mary E. Sayles and B. H. Bassett to Arthur Swayne and affirming the transfer of Swayne's debts originally owed to Bassett and Sayles over to A. B. Green. Part of the document signed by B. H. Bassett is torn away.
Date:
April 1898
Creator:
Bassett, Benjamin H.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doubletree.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable double tree that utilizes the entire force of the strain and divides it equally between the animals.
Date:
December 11, 1894
Creator:
Beaver, Francis Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of a Couple]
Portrait of a couple, with the woman wearing a dark dress and the man wearing a suit with a white tie and a thick mustache.
Date:
[1894..1900]
Creator:
Bedford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone System.
Patent for "a novel arrangement of circuits in connection with a pair of telephone-receivers at each subscriber's station, whereby the subscriber can cut out the station, so that the conversation is being carried on between two subscribers cannot be heard by the other subscribers on the same line" (lines 9-17).
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Bennett, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Desk or Cabinet.
Patent for a simple and economical desk that is designed to be completely sealed and protected when it is closed. When the cabinet is opened, "the machine may be operated with as much ease as though the machine were placed upon an ordinary table, and whereby further, when the cabinet is opened, an extensive table will be provided at each side of the machine for the reception of work which is to be performed or which has been executed, or for any purpose that the operator may desire" (lines 20-28).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Billington, Theophilus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Arc-Light Reflector.
Patent for an electric arc light reflector, including an annular band to support the reflector on the arc-light cone, and a reflector with an aperture.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Bolles, Charles Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Horse-Drawn Carriage]
Photograph of a man sitting in a carriage drawn by a team of horses, with a fence in the background.
Date:
[1896,1897]
Creator:
Bounds, H. W.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of People in a Field]
Photograph of a group of people in a field.
Date:
[1890..1900]
Creator:
Bounds, H. W.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of a Couple]
Portrait of a man and woman, with a handwritten note that says "Mrs. Lou Lawrence from Cousin Maud, Aug 10-1894. Papa's Family."
Date:
August 10, 1894
Creator:
Bounds, H. W.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Lewis and Effie Walker]
Portrait of Lewis Walker wearing a suit and sitting on a stool, with Effie Walker wearing a dress and standing next to him.
Date:
[1890..1900]
Creator:
Bounds, H. W.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for an improved and simple apparatus for boring wells that is easily adjustable. The drill head will stay intact in most drilling situations with this apparatus.
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "has for its object to furnish a combination tool which will wear or cut the harder grades or rock frequently met with in boring wells of this class, and also to furnish a tool which will be harder than the common steel too or auger, thereby dispensing with the necessity of taking out and sharpening" (lines 13-20). It consists in "[a] fluted hemispherical mass of corundum for boring Artesian wells, said mass being provided with cutting-edges which extend from the apex to the base, [and] a metallic core embedded within the mass" (lines 16-20).
Date:
April 5, 1892
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Furnace.
Patent for a garbage-furnace that relates to a patent that was previously granted to the inventor (No. 448,115). This invention provides "a new and improved garbage furnace, which is comparatively simple and durable in construction, and very effective for burning all kinds of dry and wet garbage, kitchen refuse, animal matter, excrements, &c. (lines 12-16).
Date:
April 9, 1895
Creator:
Brownlee, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Furnace.
Patent for an improved garbage-furnace which consist of a chamber having a grate for the reception of the garbage, a fire-box at each end, and a sand-box between the fire-boxes below the grate, grate-bars are arranged over the fire-boxes and extending from the bridge-wall, when the fire-boxes are ignited, garbage is introduced through the feed holes, the smoke, gases, fumes & etc. from the burning fuel and the garbage passed through a channel leading to the chimney. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 10, 1891
Creator:
Brownlee, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jetty.
Patent for a an inexpensive and durable jetty made from "piles driven in the ground in the ordinary way, but incase them in such a way that they will not be liable to early decay or infested by insects, which cut and destroy them when not protected" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Bryant, Benjamin N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History