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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
Bicycle-Tire.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tires for "use with bicycles" (line 10).
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Lewis, George Harris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Lock.
Patent for a new and improved bicycle lock for "application to bicycles and comprises the novel features hereinafter described and claimed" (line 11-13).
Date:
December 26, 1899
Creator:
Nordhausen, Otto Von
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Co.
Blue line print of survey map of Galveston County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:228,571] (6000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date:
1899
Creator:
Pressler, Chas. W.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1890-1891
General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1890-91."
Date:
1890/1891
Creator:
Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1891-1892
General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1891-92."
Date:
1891/1892
Creator:
Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1899-1900
General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1899-1900."
Date:
1899/1900
Creator:
Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1893-1894
General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1893-94."
Date:
1893/1894
Creator:
Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1898
General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1898."
Date:
1898
Creator:
Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1896-1897
General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1896-97."
Date:
1896/1897
Creator:
Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Morrison & Fourmy's General Directory of the City of Galveston: 1895-1896
General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "1895-96."
Date:
1895/1896
Creator:
Morrison & Fourmy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A portrait of Bob Wedell]
A formal portrait of Bob Wedell in a three-piece suit and tie. On the back of the photograph is written: "Bob Wedell."
Date:
[1895..1903]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Breakwater, &c.
Patent for an improved way of constructing piers, jetties, breakwaters, and similar structures. "It can be constructed from boats, barges, or from a trestle, or can be built continuously from a starting-point on shore to the objective point in the lake, bay, gulf, or other body of water" (lines 17-21). This invention is especially useful for places that don't have banks or ledges.
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Shannon, Alexander M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Record, Diary, and Ledger
Patent for improvements to books by combining "a general record, a diary, a ledger, and index leaves, including the months and days of the week and alphabetical and numerical indices" (lines 10-12).
Date:
August 30, 1892
Creator:
Meyer, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.
Patent for a compound for use in commercial manufacturing of the product calcium sodic carbid claiming to reduce time and expense of production process.
Date:
November 10, 1896
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary; Clark, Daniel Johnson & Wambaugh, Mahlon W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Type-Writing Machine.
Patent for improvements to the type writer which allow for automatic, proper spacing between letters and words; will automatically return the carriage to the beginning of the page; and will automatically feed the inking ribbon so that the entire surface is used. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1897
Creator:
Templeton, Allison
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
Bottle.
Patent for a bottle that has a mechanism near its opening, and when the cork is pulled out, it becomes impossible to refill the bottle and use it again. The point of this bottle is so that after it has been sealed, it cannot be opened and emptied without apparent evidence that it has been opened.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Phillips, George C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Freezing Wine.
Patent for a device that cools wine and liquor. The device "will produce the desired results in much shorter time than is now employed by the common method and apparatus" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Wadhams, Arthur
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Funnel.
Patent for an improved funnel that is meant to transfer liquids into receptacles with small openings, "the object being to provide a novel construction whereby a valve is automatically closed when the receptacle is full or the liquid has reached the proper level, so as to cut off the supply and prevent overflow which frequently occurs in using the ordinary funnels, resulting in loss and waste" (lines 16-23).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Wright, George H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Fender.
Patent for a simple car-fender that improves on the types of "fenders which are attached to the front end of street and other car trucks for the purpose of saving human life by preventing a body from being thrown under the car wheels" (lines 10-14). The invention does not let a body under the car wheels.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Rau, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil.
Patent for a cooking utensil that is used to cook cereal and similar food articles "that are boiled, steamed, or heated by the agency of boiling water, the objects being to provide a sauce-pan or other suitable vessel, with novel interior parts, that will facilitate the cooking of oatmeal, mush, grits, rice, or other cereals, without danger of their burning, dispensing with need of constant attention, and effecting the operation in a speedy, thorough manner" (lines 11-19).
Date:
November 14, 1893
Creator:
Nicholls, George Habberton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Channel Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved channel cleaner. This design "is to construct an apparatus which may be anchored in a channel where there are sand-bars, for the purpose of agitating the water and stirring up the sand, so that the current may remove it. [The] invention consists in a trunk or large tube perforated along the bottom and provided at one end with a flaring mouth for concentrating the current within the trunk; also, in the combination, with the trunk, of a stirrer and a motor-screw for driving the same" (lines 17-28).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Evans, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History