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CAPCOG Connections, May 2013
Monthly newsletter of the Capital Area Council of Governments discussing news , upcoming events, and other information of relevance for regional planningi n the Austin, Texas area.
Date:
May 2013
Creator:
Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the side bars having a toothed wheel journaled between them and provided with a crank, a set of cross bars or bolts connecting the two side bars, a pawl hung upon one of the cross-bars and having its toothed end arranged to abut against the teeth of the wheel, and a chain passing over the toothed wheel and underneath the pawl" (lines 67-76).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Stiles, Frederick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists of "the rotating disk or circular-washboard, faced with radial ribs and operated by a crank which is supported in a plane parallel to the bottom of the box, so that the circular board shall rotate at a right angle thereto; the galvanized-sheet-iron inner box, made with a semi-cylindrical bottom to receive the circular wash-board; and the separate detachable wash-board, provided with a semicircle of radial ribs, and which fits into the sheet-iron box opposite to the circular rotating board" (lines 18-28).
Date:
May 30, 1882
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-choppers by way of vertical rock-shafts.
Date:
May 25, 1876
Creator:
Burnham, Theodore O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History