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Water-Closet Cistern.
Patent for improvements in water closet cisterns: "which are normally empty to prevent freezing and which are only filled just before the flush is desired" (lines 14-16).
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Ackley, George D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Barreling Soap-Stock.
Patent for "an apparatus for filling barrels with soap-stock or other thick liquid of similar consistency, the object being to provide a machine whereby the barrels may be filled quickly through the bung-hole." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Knife
Patent for a design for a knife that has a curved terminal that forms a shield.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Albert, Alfred K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for a granulated-electrode phone transmitter that is designed to be simple and "constructed so that the granulated-electrode cannot become displaced from the cell" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for "a simple transmitter in which the greatest volume of sound may be transmitted without causing grating or rattling." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "pin-and-link car-couplings to enable the same to couple automatically and to be readily uncoupled without going between cars, and to provide means for holding the link in substantially a horizontal position for guiding it into the mouth of a draw-head to avoid going between cars and guiding the link by hand." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1897
Creator:
Allen, George F.; Allen, Charles D. & Martin, Richard W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Allen, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ink-Bottle.
Patent for improvements in in bottles: "it consists, essentially, of a hexagonal or analogous polygonal shaped body having dip cups arranged adjacent to one and thereof at such angles as to regulate the flow by turning the body and bringing it to bear on different bases." (lines 12-17).
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Anderson, Alexander C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling-press meant to bale cotton. In this machine, "the power as applied to the plunger is increased in proportion to the resistance offered by the material being baled and whereby the forward movement of the plunger is automatically checked at the limit of its path and is returned to its initial positioin without effort upon the part of the operator" (lines 10-17).
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Anderson, Alva E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fencing - Machine
Patent for a new and useful Wire-Fence Machine, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 26, 1897
Creator:
Anderson, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator Shipping-Box.
Patent for a "new and useful Improvement in Shipping Boxes" (lines 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Andrews, Otis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in monkey-wrenches to "provide an improved construction of the same whereby the clamping-jaws may be quickly and readily adjusted to the nut or tap which is to be engaged thereby" (line 19-23).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Antony, Edwin Le Roy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hockley County
Map of Hockley County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The center of Hockley County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
December 1897
Creator:
Appell, P. F.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Polk County, Texas
Cadastral map of Polk County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Some borders and features are marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
February 1897
Creator:
Appell, P. F.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a combination tool that is "adapted without changing any of its parts to operate as a nut and pipe wrench, pliers, hammer, screw-driver, and nail-extractor." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Armstrong, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thread-Cabinet.
Patent "...relates to cabinets for spooladapted to contain spools of thread of different sizes and from which the spools may be easily extracted one at a time" (lines 7-11) including illustrations and descriptions.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Armstrong, John, S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Comet, [Volume 1, Number 1], December 1897
Monthly journal of Austin High School containing news articles submitted by students and other information of interest to readers.
Date:
December 17, 1897
Creator:
Austin High School (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Fé Católica. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 27, 1897
Weekly Spanish-language Catholic newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the local Catholic community along with advertising.
Date:
March 27, 1897
Creator:
Backmann, Carlos
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Fé Católica. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 3, 1897
Weekly Spanish-language Catholic newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the local Catholic community along with advertising.
Date:
April 3, 1897
Creator:
Backmann, Carlos
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Fé Católica. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 10, 1897
Weekly Spanish-language Catholic newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the local Catholic community along with advertising.
Date:
April 10, 1897
Creator:
Backmann, Carlos
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Fe Catolica. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1897
Weekly Spanish-language Catholic newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the local Catholic community along with advertising.
Date:
May 15, 1897
Creator:
Backmann, Carlos
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Fe Catolica. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 22, 1897
Weekly Spanish-language Catholic newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the local Catholic community along with advertising.
Date:
May 22, 1897
Creator:
Backmann, Carlos
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Fe Catolica. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 29, 1897
Weekly Spanish-language Catholic newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the local Catholic community along with advertising.
Date:
May 29, 1897
Creator:
Backmann, Carlos
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Fe Catolica. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1897
Weekly Spanish-language Catholic newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the local Catholic community along with advertising.
Date:
June 5, 1897
Creator:
Backmann, Carlos
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History