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["Cannon Ball" at Marshall, Texas]
Texas and Pacific Railway's "Cannon Ball", train No. 6 eastbound headed by Engine No. 359, at the Marshall, Texas Depot in autumn 1903.
Date:
1903
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yearbook of Wiley University, 1902
Yearbook for Wiley University in Marshall, Texas includes information about the college, student body, professors, and organizations.
Date:
1902
Creator:
Wiley University
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yearbook of Wiley University, 1903
Yearbook for Wiley University in Marshall, Texas includes photographs of and information about the college, student body, professors, and organizations.
Date:
1903
Creator:
Wiley University
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer.
Patent for a new conveyer design “which is particularly adapted to load or unload railroad-car wheels or other heavy material on and of cars” (Lines 13-15) including illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1902
Creator:
St. James, Henry Livingston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake
Patent for a car brake for train cars. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 12, 1904
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for a coupling mechanism for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date:
October 31, 1905
Creator:
Power, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Body-Bolster
Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Wahlert, Henry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Valve Cage for Air-Brake Pumps
Patent for an air valve cage for air brake pumps which reduces the wear on the air brake pump and substantially reduces the maintenance costs of the system.
Date:
February 16, 1909
Creator:
Mattingly, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake Mechanism
Patent for a beamless brake mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door
Patent for a rail-car door. This invention is in relation to 'flush doors'. Illustration includes.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door Fastener
Patent for a car door fastener. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1905
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake
Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date:
September 27, 1904
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn designed for churning butter in smaller quantities and preventing foreign objects from entering. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 5, 1909
Creator:
Bland, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Key-Seats in Shafting
Patent for "cutting key-seats in shafting machine. It provides a portable key-seat-cutting especially adapted to operate upon the driving shafts of locomotives in key-seating eccentrics thereon." (lines 7-13)
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
Matheus, Karl
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck.
Patent for a strong but light steel framed truck with a beamless braking system that is affordable and easy to repair.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spur Attachment For Stirrups
Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Poorter, Charles Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Packing for Doors and Like Closures.
Patent for new packing for closures for air-tight and temperature-regulating containers (i.e. refrigerators), with illustrations included.
Date:
March 19, 1907
Creator:
Carter, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mantel
Patent for an invention that can be applied to a mantel, consisting "essentially, of a flexible screen, guard, or shield adapted to wind upon a roller, the latter being housed in the space formed between the shelf off the mantel and the headboard" (lines 22-25). It is intended to prevent fire from getting into the from from the fire, control heat radiation, and provide a closure for the fireplace when it is not in use.
Date:
September 30, 1899
Creator:
Cox, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mantel.
Patent for fireplace guards that connect to mantels, which can be folded out of sight, or rolled out to prevent sparks or closing off the fireplace when not in use.
Date:
March 7, 1899
Creator:
Cox, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ladder
Patent for ladders, more particularly to one adapted for use in connection with freight-cars. (lines 9-11) Design to prevent the grab-irons from becoming disconnected from the rails. (lines 27-29)
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spirometer
Patent for a spirometer. Illustartion included.
Date:
August 16, 1904
Creator:
Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spirometer
Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Soft Peanut Candy
Patent for a soft peanut candy recipe with ingredients listed.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Green, Little J. & Heyn, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for the improvement and simplification of disk plows. It consists of improvements to interconnection of beam, plow, wheels and axle in their positioning and securing to allow for adjustments of these parts; also includes scrapers for plow-disks. Illustrations of a possible implementation are included.
Date:
March 18, 1902
Creator:
Schofield, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History