The Battalion, Volume 30, Number 22, March 1922 (open access)

The Battalion, Volume 30, Number 22, March 1922

Monthly literary journal of A. & M. College of Texas containing original short stories, essays, poetry, and other creative works written by students.
Date: March 1922
Creator: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Austin Society.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for an inexpensive and simple plow that has an improved braces placement which makes the plow very rigid. The blade angle is also adjustable and the plow can be a single or double plow.
Date: March 27, 1894
Creator: Edge, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Seed Planter. (open access)

Combined Corn and Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design is "to simplify the means employed for providing at will recesses of different depths in the wheel, and also to provide means whereby a recess of both greater width and depth can be provided for cotton-seed than for corn, whereby the cotton-seed can be fed from the hopper in a more certain, free, and efficient manner than heretofore" (lines 23-31).
Date: March 20, 1883
Creator: Holland, Joseph J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Railroad-Switch (open access)

Safety Railroad-Switch

Patent for a safety railroad-switch which is meant to prevent vertical displacement.
Date: March 30, 1915
Creator: Leach, Felix
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Show-Case. (open access)

Knockdown Show-Case.

Patent for a showcase that may be easily taken apart for transportation or storage. It is also easy to replace broken panes of glass, and the parts "mutually brace and support each other" (lines 20-21).
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Mistrot, Felix E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Destroying Cotton-Boll Weevils (open access)

Process of Destroying Cotton-Boll Weevils

Patent for a formula for an insecticide for the Mexican cotton boll weevil.
Date: March 4, 1912
Creator: Newell, Wilmon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Device (open access)

Rail Device

Patent for a rail securing device which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Tritico, Leonard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vine-Cutter. (open access)

Vine-Cutter.

Patent for a vine cutter that is meant "to simplify the construction of devices of this character by means of an integral formation of the cutter" (lines 8-10). It can be "adapted to be applied to a plow standard or foot consisting of a pair of cutting knives or shares integrally connected by a front cross-piece with a single central opening therein for the passage therethrough of a single securing bolt, the knives being rearwardly divergent and obliquely arranged at a downward angle, the lower edges of said knives or shares being sharpened and their rear ends curved upwardly, the said lower edges of the knives or shares adjacent to the said cross-piece being formed blunt" (lines 90-102).
Date: March 14, 1893
Creator: Wheeler, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aquarium. (open access)

Aquarium.

Patent for an ornamental suspension aquarium with easily removed plug or stopper for refreshing the water with illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1884
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus. (open access)

Game Apparatus.

Patent for a game device, designed for any number of players and in a bowling alley setting or similar. Included are illustrations of the device and instructions for building the device and how to play the game.
Date: March 30, 1880
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History