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Improvement in Devices for Transmitting Rotary Motion.
Patent for an improvement to devices that transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another. It is comprised of a wheel on a rotary shaft that has has a groove that grips an angular nut mounted on a shaft.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Howe, Milton G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.
Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 9, 1879
Creator:
Richardson, John D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Blow-Off Cocks.
Patent for improvement in blow-off cocks used in locomotives and steam boilers, including an illustration.
Date:
August 5, 1879
Creator:
Harrop, Benjamin B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Odometers.
Patent for an improvement to odometers used for measuring distance traveled in motor vehicles.
Date:
July 15, 1879
Creator:
Richardson, John D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Mary Jones, 13 July 1879
Letter from Cromwell Anson Jones, son of the last president of the Republic of Texas. The original letter is housed in the University of North Texas Archives.
Date:
July 13, 1879
Creator:
Jones, C. Anson
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Baling-Presses.
Patent for improvements to presses used for baling cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1879
Creator:
McGowen, Edmond Felder
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cart-Saddle
Patent for a more animal-friendly saddle to attach a horse to a cart by adjusting the way the girth is handled as the cart is loaded.
Date:
April 1, 1879
Creator:
Franks, Ely Anderson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Heating Tables.
Patent for improvement of heating tables, "by steam to keep the meat and other articles at proper temperature. It consist more particularly in an arrangement of the steam-heating apparatus that will admit of its application to dining-tables, and will allow the plates of the diners and such of the dishes as may be desired being kept at the desired degree of warmth without necessitating the heating of warmth without the necessitating the heating of all the articles on the table."
Date:
October 29, 1878
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Cooking Apparatus.
Patent for a steam-cooking apparatus, "in which the heat of steam in pipes or tubular jackets is made to cook food without the direct action of fire by radiation, conduction, or convection" (lines 8-11).
Date:
October 29, 1878
Creator:
Curtin, Martin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
Patent for "new and Improved Vapor-Burner." (lines 3-4)
Date:
March 26, 1878
Creator:
Sawyer, Frederick A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Wrench and Saw-Set.
Patent for improvements in the "combination of a wrench with a saw-setting device attached to the sliding jaw thereof" (lines 17-19). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 22, 1878
Creator:
Backer, Jacob
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Mary Jones, 7 October 1877
Letter to Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas, from her son, Cromwell Anson Jones.
Date:
October 7, 1877
Creator:
Jones, C. Anson (Cromwell Anson), 1850-
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum.
The production of chewing-gum will become much simpler with the improved patent of chewing-gum.
Date:
June 23, 1877
Creator:
Cotter, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mosquito-Net Frames.
Patent for "mosquito-net frames which are made adjustable, so that they may be extended over the bed or folded compactly, according to the requirements of use." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1877
Creator:
Volle, Johann F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
Patent for, "an improved construction and arrangement of vapor-burner, by which the same is readily lighted, adjusted to a larger or smaller flame, or extinguished" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date:
February 27, 1877
Creator:
Sawyer, Frederick A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston 1877 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1877
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston 1877 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1877
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston 1877 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1877
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston 1877 Sheet 4
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1877
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Taps.
Patent for "a tool that shall combine the features of an expanding tap and reamer for reaming and tapping holes of different sizes" (lines 29-32) with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 7, 1876
Creator:
Melvin, Josiah Walter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carbureters
Patent for improvements in carburetor design including illustrations of 2 views of a vertical cross section of a carburetor.
Date:
August 29, 1876
Creator:
Schmidt, Martin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in plow-stocks.
Patent for an improvement on the plow stock that allows the user to use different plow blades and standards, depending on what kind of plowing needs to be done. Includes illustrations.
Date:
August 15, 1876
Creator:
Price, James Alvin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton
Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Drake, James A. & Singer, Edgar C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston Age. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 301, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1876
Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 15, 1876
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History