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Breakwater.
Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
Date:
June 7, 1859
Creator:
Armour, D. Hillen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for a seed-planter that "may be attached to the leg of the attendant and operated by the natural movement of the attendant while walking along behind the machine" (lines 20-23), including illustration.
Date:
March 1, 1859
Creator:
Benthall, J. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Escapement for Timekeepers.
Patent for the improvement in the escapement of the watch for a "more regular and less liable to get out of order" through wear (lines 23-24), including illustration.
Date:
October 12, 1858
Creator:
Bishop, Josiah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Preparation of Portable Soup-Bread.
Patent for "extracting the nutritious part of flesh or animal meat of every description and combining this concentrated extract with flour or vegetable meal, and baking the two substances in an oven, thereby forming a portable desiccated soup-bread....." (lines 8-14), instruction only, no illustration.
Date:
February 5, 1850
Creator:
Borden, Gail, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers.
Patent for the "improvement in supplying air to furnaces on steamers" (lines 5-6), including illustration.
Date:
December 20, 1859
Creator:
Brandy, Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mode of Straining Saws by Atmospheric Pressure.
Patent for the improvement of the reciprocating saw by simplifying the arrangement of cylinders, pipes, and exhaust pumps to produce the necessary vacuum, including illustration.
Date:
August 14, 1855
Creator:
Brown, A. & Coffin, Abel, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for the improvement of the hopper, stirrer, and distributor in cotton-planters that dispenses seeds into the soil using two horizontal united disks that discharges the seeds regularly and evenly, including illustration.
Date:
September 13, 1859
Creator:
Collier, T. T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Cultivating-Plow.
Patent for a cultivating plow with a series of cutting-disks and digging-hoes, including illustration.
Date:
March 25, 1856
Creator:
Crenshaw, Micajah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arrangement of Devices for Lowering and Detaching Boats.
Patent for "lowering and detaching life and other small boats from large ships" (lines 5-7), including illustration.
Date:
March 16, 1858
Creator:
De Veuve, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for the improvement for planting cotton seeds using a toothed wheel and hopper, including illustration.
Date:
April 27, 1858
Creator:
Donovan, I. T. & Fowler, W. J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for a triangle shaped cultivator with removable mold-boards that can be used as a plow and scraper, including illustration.
Date:
May 10, 1859
Creator:
Doss, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for a seed feeder using a tube connected to a revolving cylinder at the bottom of the hopper to deposit the seeds into the earth, including illustration.
Date:
March 9, 1858
Creator:
Doss, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a simple, efficient, and low maintenance submerged rotary pump, including illustration.
Date:
February 22, 1859
Creator:
Fagan, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Pump.
Patent for a "submerged pump of very simple construction... one which will be efficient in its operation and not liable to get out of repair" (lines 16-20), illustration included.
Date:
March 8, 1859
Creator:
Fagan, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Husker.
Patent for a new and improved machine for husking corn using a rotating wheel with spurs and cutters with combination of a stationary and movable concaves, including illustration.
Date:
March 9, 1858
Creator:
Fagan, Joseph & Fagan, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dressing Millstones.
Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding every kind of grain into meal flour &c., &c." (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 4, 1851
Creator:
Gaines, Edmund P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress.
Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1854
Creator:
Gaines, Edmund P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Seventh Congress, First Session
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, and speeches for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date:
1851
Creator:
Gales and Seaton
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Seventh Congress, Second Session
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, and speeches for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date:
1851
Creator:
Gales and Seaton
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Eighth Congress
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, and speeches for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date:
1852
Creator:
Gales and Seaton
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Eighth Congress, Second Session
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, and speeches for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date:
1852
Creator:
Gales and Seaton
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Ninth Congress
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, and speeches for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date:
1852
Creator:
Gales and Seaton
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Ninth Congress, Second Session
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, and speeches for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date:
1852
Creator:
Gales and Seaton
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Tenth Congress, First Session, [Volume 1]
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, and speeches for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date:
1852
Creator:
Gales and Seaton
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library