Partner
Rosenberg Library
3,074
Abilene Library Consortium
2,782
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
134
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
104
Texas Historical Commission
22
Hardin-Simmons University Library
16
George Ranch Historical Park
8
University of Texas at Arlington Library
7
Fort Bend Museum
4
Galveston Historical Foundation
2
10 More
Collection
Texas Digital Newspaper Program
5,835
Galveston County Area Newspaper Collection
3,050
Galveston Tribune
3,050
Abilene Library Consortium
2,798
The Galveston News
2,782
Texas Patents
134
Sanborn Map Collection
102
THC National Register Collection
21
Harris and Eliza Kempner
19
Sayles and Sayles Collection
14
34 More
Country
Counties
Decade
Month
Language
6,166 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Results:
1 - 24 of
6,166
next
Machine for Cutting Stick-Candy.
Patent for a simple and durable machine for cutting stick-candy that is "capable of traveling over a table or other support upon which stick candy in given lengths may be laid, and to so travel over the table that the lengthy sticks of candy will be made to slide over the bed of the machine, under a knife or its equivalent; and a further object of the invention is to provide a means whereby the knife may be manipulated at predetermined points in the travel of the machine to cut the lengthy sticks into shorter predetermined lengths" (lines 11-21).
Date:
December 18, 1894
Creator:
Allardyce, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve for Engines.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in valves for steam engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1898
Creator:
Allen, Walter J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a swing that consists of a frame, a wooden horse to ride on, a U-shaped hanger that is attached to the seat in the back and front, a pulley-like rocker attached to the top of the frame, a bolt that is securing the rocker to the hanger, two bars that go from the horse seat to the pulley, and a chord that attaches the two bars and goes around the top of the pulley.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Alston, Samuel I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator.
Patent for a refrigerator that consists of a rectangular chest with "the inclosing casing provided at its upper end with a compartment or ice-chest having a space surrounding the same" (lines 28-30), a gap between the ice chest and the opening, a valved opening, and a food container below the ice chest.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Baggett, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Filling Machine.
Patent for a bottle-filling machine in which "a number of bottles of equal capacity may be simultaneously filled from a common reservoir by the single movement of a lever" (lines 13-16), illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Baldinger, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hot Box Alarm.
Patent for a new and improved hot-box alarm. This design "relates to alarms to indicate overheated journal-boxes; and it has for its object to provide a device of this character . . . which will be useful upon boxes of stationary engines, car-wheels, or any style or form of machinery in which shafting or boxes are employed which are liable to get overheated" (lines 8-16). It consists, "with a journal-box, of a cylinder supported upon said box and designed to accommodate a liquefying solid, a perforated plunger supported upon the solid within the cylinder and adapted to work through the solid when melted" (lines 12-17).
Date:
October 4, 1892
Creator:
Basel, John Conrad & Fruehauf, Eduard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Digging-Machine.
Patent for an improved, simple, effective, and durable excavator meant to remove sand-bars. It consists of a hollow drum that is drug across the sandbar, and it picks up sand with shovels on the drum.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bentinck, Eliza J. & Renner, Julia A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Show-Globe.
Patent for "a globe adapted to serve simply for the purpose of illumination and furnishing a pure white bright light for general purposes, or to serve as an illuminated show-globe for druggists," (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Berger, Otto & Eldridge, Hilliary
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blotter.
Patent for "a combined hand-blotter, ruler, paper-cutter, and pen-rack... especially for the use of book-keepers and accountants," (lines 12-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1891
Creator:
Betts, Walter & Herbert, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.
Patent for a "new and useful Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid" (lines 5-7) that will aid in the commercially successful production. Patent includes specifications for the composition of matter.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Blum, Sylvain; Eldridge, Hillary; Clark, Daniel J. & Lazarus, Sam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "a simple and durable plant capable of use in carrying out a dry process of reducing the hulls to a finely-divided condition" (lines 8-13).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "to utilize a heretofore waste product, and by means of a dry process to reduce the same to fine particles, which, being capable of felting, constitute stock" (lines 14-18).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Wheeled Delivery-Vehicle.
Patent for "a light and convenient vehicle for the use of mail-collectors in cities, and for the transportation and delivery of parcels, milk, or other articles," (lines 8-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1891
Creator:
Boone, Manly Breaker
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Wheel.
Patent for an improved rear bicycle-wheel. It has one hub, two rims, two sets of spokes and tires. This invention is meant to be safer and has the qualities of a tricycle. It is meant for a woman's bicycle.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Broers, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nailless Horseshoe.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in nailless horseshoes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Broers, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Joint.
Patent for a railway-joint in which "the chairs at the sides of the rails have a dovetail connection with a connecting block or tie extending through the webs of the rails" (lines 9-12). The invention has an improved construction, can be adjusted, and can be laterally removed from the rails.
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Brown, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Buckle.
Patent for an improved back-band buckle and an improved hook that connects the buckle with the trace-chain. The lever-hook snaps "into position and is held secure in a pane substantially flush with the lower portion of the buckle-frame when the buckle is closed by the forcing down of the lever" (lines 15-19).
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Brown, John Staddart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Handle for Pans, Tubs, &c.
Patent for a wire handle for pans, tubs, &c that consists of two handles on either side of the tub, which are connected via a wire that fits in the lip of the rim of the receptacle. The handles, when taken out of the receptacle, consist of one single frame.
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Brown, John Stoddart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design consists in "[a]n improved back-band buckle with hooks, consisting of a body portion formed of a single piece of wrought-wire, the meeting ends of each bent downward, upward, outward, and again downward to form chain-holding hooks or loops, and the tongues pivoted upon the said body portion" (lines 89-95).
Date:
April 15, 1890
Creator:
Brown, John Stoddart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trussed Axle for Wheeled Vehicles.
Patent for improvements in trussed axle for wheeled vehicles: "The invention relates to that class or type of axles for wheeled vehicles wherein a metal truss rod or bar running longitudinally under the axle body has its end portions extended through the axle skeins and secured by screw nuts which abut the outer ends of the skeins." (lines 9-14).
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Brown, John Stoddart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flower Pot Trellis
Patent for a flower pot trellis which is used "to be applied to flower-pots of various sizes to support plants or vines without interfering with their roots" (p.2).
Date:
April 15, 1890
Creator:
Brown, John Stoddart, of Galveston, Texas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Gearing.
Patent for "gearing for bicycles, and has for its object to furnish a train of gearing for the connection of the treadles with the rear wheel of a bicycle, whereby the usual sprocket-and-chain gearing may be dispensed with." (lines 7-12).
Date:
August 16, 1898
Creator:
Brown, Wilson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1892
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 19, 1892
Creator:
Burson, J. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 98, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1892
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 8, 1892
Creator:
Burson, J. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History