Retort Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Retort Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for improvements in retort-burners, to be used for any suitable and desired purposed and for any kind of oils by providing a "direct-combustion retort-burner that the combustion will be perfect and complete and the oil and air may be supplied thereto under a uniform pressure of high or low degree." (Lines 20-27) The retort-burner will be "readily assembled without the necessity of having special machinery for their manufacture or skilled workmen to put them together." (Lines 31-34) Illustration is included.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Duncan, Alfred D. & Wafer, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Expenses of W. K. McAlpine's Estate Billed by Rustin & Company, June 17, 1902] (open access)

[Expenses of W. K. McAlpine's Estate Billed by Rustin & Company, June 17, 1902]

List of expenses of W. K. McAlpine's estate billed by Rustin & Company. The listed expenses are from May and June, 1902.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 179, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 17, 1902 (open access)

Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 179, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 17, 1902

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History