Staple-Setting Implement. (open access)

Staple-Setting Implement.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in staple setting implements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1899
Creator: Schmidt, Charles Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto. (open access)

Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto.

Patent for new and useful improvements in composition railroad ties and means for securing rails thereto, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sawing-Machine. (open access)

Sawing-Machine.

Patent for a new and useful sawing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 26, 1899
Creator: Krenek, Ignatz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post. (open access)

Design for a Fence-Post.

Design patent for a fence-post which consists of flanges at the edges of the post, with their openings, and the base-piece turned at right angles to the post.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Tabken, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Cementing Wells. (open access)

Apparatus For Cementing Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Forcing Water Out Of Wells. (open access)

Device For Forcing Water Out Of Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in devices for forcing water out of wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and improved gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Schaefer, Henry P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie (open access)

Bale Tie

Patent for "a new and useful bale tie" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: May 14, 1900
Creator: Walker, Millard Fillmore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book Holder (open access)

Book Holder

Patent for a book holder to receive or hold a book or in position for writing
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Hackworth, Riggs P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Air-Brake. (open access)

Vehicle Air-Brake.

Patent for an air braking system that can be used on bicycles, tricycles or other vehicles. Illustration included.
Date: September 11, 1900
Creator: Donaldson, William John, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for improvements of hay press to simplify construction and add locking device.
Date: August 29, 1900
Creator: Sherrer, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-chopper (open access)

Cotton-chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper mounted on wheels.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Walker, Millard F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Signal. (open access)

Railway-Signal.

Patent for improvement to the "construction of railway-signals and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one adapted to utilize the light of a telegraph-office or other structure and capable of housing and protecting parts and of being readily operated for displaying either white or colored light" (lines 10-17).
Date: July 16, 1901
Creator: Walker, Millard Fillmore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape. (open access)

Fire-Escape.

Patent for improvements in fire-escapes by enabling the fire-escapes, “when not in use, to be compactly folded and arranged within a house or other building and capable of being quickly placed in position for use and of enabling persons and goods to be rapidly lowered to the ground with perfect safety.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
Date: April 8, 1902
Creator: Boettcher, Hermann
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for baling press for baling hay,cotton, and the like; is simple, durable and efficient.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Heinrich, Ferdinand, L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup Leather (open access)

Stirrup Leather

Patent for a leather stirrup designed as an improvement and "is the production of such devices with a minimum expenditure of material and labor." (12-14)
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Wroe, James P. & Lange, Henry F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bastrop Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1904
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a car coupling. Illustrations included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Simecek, Vaclav
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mote Board For Cotton Gins (open access)

Mote Board For Cotton Gins

Patent for mote board for cotton gins. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Bodungen, Clemens G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin (open access)

Cotton Gin

Patent for a cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1904
Creator: Bodungen, Clemens G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Ticket (open access)

Railroad Ticket

Patent for railroad ticket. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Lyon, Leonidas N. & Donaldson, Westbrook
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: April 11, 1905
Creator: Kruse, William & Vanderwerth, Theodor M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper And Cultivator (open access)

Cotton Chopper And Cultivator

Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: May 9, 1905
Creator: Zoll, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Railway Signaling System (open access)

Electrical Railway Signaling System

Patent for an electrical railway signaling system. Illustration included.
Date: August 22, 1905
Creator: Lyon, Leonidas N., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History