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Improvement in Windmills. (open access)

Improvement in Windmills.

Patent for a "self-regulating windmill, so arranged that it will automatically exclude the wind from the wheel during storms and irregular or sudden squalls of wind, while it will equally enlarge the opening through which the wind is admitted to the wheel, whenever the power of the wind is reduced." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1873
Creator: Davie, John P. & Morgan, Asa
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chambers County

Map of Chambers County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. The center of Chambers County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1874
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History