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Apparatus for Killing Rodents (open access)

Apparatus for Killing Rodents

Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Palmer, Austin D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Legal Document Between E. Glasscock and Van Fugh & Sons] (open access)

[Legal Document Between E. Glasscock and Van Fugh & Sons]

Legal document concerning a land dispute between Elizabeth Glasscock and Van Fugh & Sons.
Date: April 30, 1882
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger. (open access)

Earth-Auger.

Patent for an earth-auger that allows a hole to "be bored in ordinary soil in much less time than with the ordinary auger. It readily bores in ground in which the ordinary auger will not bore - viz., dry, hard, and packed soil, gravel, and concrete beds."
Date: September 12, 1882
Creator: Porter, Thomas & Gillilland, George Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History