Tie Tamping Device. (open access)

Tie Tamping Device.

Patent for a tie tamping device to be used in building and repairing railroads.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Johnson, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for wire stretcher that will secure a wire as it is stapled to a post.
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Kasprzyk, Leon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes. (open access)

Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes.

The invention is "to improve the construction of gages for planes and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to the stock of the plane and capable of being set at different angles" (lines 10-15) "to enable the face of a board to be accurately planed at the desired angle" (lines 16-17).
Date: November 13, 1900
Creator: Smith, Millage M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for improvement of construction of wire stretcher for both mending and cutting wire.
Date: November 20, 1900
Creator: Passmore, Benjamine, H.
System: The Portal to Texas History