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Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Fikes, Bosiar Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. Illustration included.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: McGregor, Montague M. & Williams, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Line. (open access)

Clothes-Line.

Patent for improvement in “pinless” clothes-lines by simplifying the construction of the garment-clasping elements to enhance the means of receiving and releasing the articles. Illustration is included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Brunner, Burel A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Straightner (open access)

Axle Straightner

Patent for an axle straightener. Illustration included.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Steadham, John S. & Steadham, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Disk Harrow and Land-Roller (open access)

Combined Disk Harrow and Land-Roller

Patent for a vehicle that may be used as either a harrow or a roller. Illustrations included.
Date: May 19, 1908
Creator: Jackson, Lewis Livingston
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closure for Oil-Cans, Jugs, &c. (open access)

Closure for Oil-Cans, Jugs, &c.

Patent for an invention used to prevent the loss of closures for cans, jugs, and various other containers. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Tabler, Guy T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Condenser (open access)

Steam-Condenser

Patent for a steam condenser. Illustrations included.
Date: July 13, 1909
Creator: Hartman, Gus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Bracket (open access)

Lamp Bracket

Patent for a lamp bracket. Illustration included.
Date: April 18, 1905
Creator: Holder, William J. & Corry, J. F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Feeding Device (open access)

Stock Feeding Device

Patent for a stock feeding device. Illustration included.
Date: January 22, 1907
Creator: Harvey, Albert Wadkins
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail pouch (open access)

Mail pouch

Patent for new and improved mail pouch, with particular emphasis on the top locking mechanism.
Date: June 9, 1900
Creator: Tabler, Jasper Newton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Punch. (open access)

Punch.

Patent for a punch for "removing broken rivets from buggy-bow sockets" (lines 16, 17) that can be operated by one person.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: Stedham, William H. & Miller, John N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music Holder and Turner. (open access)

Music Holder and Turner.

Patent for a devise that turns the leaves of books or music books, which "may be supported upon the music-rack of a piano, organ, or similar instrument." (lines 13-14)
Date: November 11, 1902
Creator: Black, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Switch-Operating Mechanism

Patent for a information regards to improvements in switch operating mechanism.
Date: September 18, 1906
Creator: Murphy, Edward C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filter For Rain Spouts (open access)

Filter For Rain Spouts

Patent for a filter for rain spouts. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Moechel, Aratine G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeding-Machine. (open access)

Seeding-Machine.

Patent for a Seeding-Machine that serves as a flexible connector to cultivating devices or other frames related to seeding. In addition, the Seeding-Machine can be utilized independently, Illustrations included.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zollner, Matthes & Zollner, Carl
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Envelop (open access)

Safety-Envelop

Patent for an envelope that cannot be removed without obvious sign of tampering.
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Tabler, Jasper N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Signal (open access)

Railway-Signal

Patent for a railway signal that is activated when the wheels of a train pass over a switch. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Harvey, Albert Wadkins
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Signal (open access)

Railroad Signal

Patent for a railroad signal. This invention is an improvement for signalling by the trains interaction on the rails. Illustration included.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Harvey, Albert Wadkins
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Point Fastener (open access)

Plow Point Fastener

Patent for a plow point fastener. This invention is an improvement to plow point fasteners and secure the shovels to the standards of cultivator plows. Illustration included.
Date: December 11, 1906
Creator: Stedham, William H. & Miller, John N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer. (open access)

Draft-Equalizer.

Patent for a Draft-Equalizer that will "provide a simple, convenient , and inexpensive device for equalizing the draft of wheeled cultivators." ( lines 14-16), Including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zollner, Matthes
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for "improvement in acetylene-gas generators, and has for one object to provide an exceedingly- simple apparatus of this description in which the pipes and connections are closed , and thus protected from freezing by the effects of atmospheric changes; and a further object of my invention is to remove the possibility of an explosion taking place during the manipulation of the machine." (lines 9-17) including illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Hartman, Gus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a wheeled cultivator with spring tension, a frame that can be tilted, and pivoting wheel-axles. It is an improved version of their earlier patent, number 615,775, from December 13, 1898. The cultivator can straddle multiple rows and be drawn by various numbers of livestock, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zöllner, Matthes & Zöllner, Carl
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Rockwall 1900 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Rockwall in Rockwall County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1900
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Royse City 1901 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Royse City in Rockwall County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1901
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History