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Airship-Destroyer.
Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Magazine-Projectile
Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Multiple Submarine Destroyer
Patent for a munitions delivery system designed for anti-submarine warfare. Specifically, this devise is a multi-stage explosive that periodically (period of deployment determined by depth measurement) deploys first a primary detonating charge, followed up by the detonation of multiple, smaller charges scattered by the primary explosion, ensuring an area of effect should the primary canister miss it's intended target. The patent notes that should the canister actually make contact with an object on it's bottom facing, all explosives in the canister will be triggered at once.
Date:
October 1, 1917
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Switch.
Patent for improvements in railroad-switches, relating to a simple and more efficient means for throwing a switch of a railway truck, whereby a train of cars or a single car may be switched from the main track to another track or on a siding.
Date:
December 30, 1919
Creator:
Hester, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Torpedo.
Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Fender
Patent for fenders for truck wheels using hoods and reinforcing bands, including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Leach, Felix
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key-Ring Holder.
Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.
Date:
January 16, 1917
Creator:
Kropp, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Half-Car Unloader
Patent for an improved and simplified mechanism of Half-Car Unloaders, which unloads earth materials such as coal and ore from a railroad car more easily and effectively by lifting up a train car, unloading its contents, and placing it back on the railroad track.
Date:
February 9, 1915
Creator:
Scardino, Mario P. & Scardino, Peter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Treating Apparatus and Process
Patent for cotton treating apparatus and process, cleaning the cotton as it is removed from bolls and then formed in to bales.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Dunlap, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Railroad-Switch
Patent for a safety railroad-switch which is meant to prevent vertical displacement.
Date:
March 30, 1915
Creator:
Leach, Felix
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Round Bale Cotton Compress
Patent for a round bale cotton compress that efficiently creates cotton bales with little manual labor, including illustrations.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Dunlap, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Half-Car Unloader.
Patent for the improvement of Half-Car Unloaders as it "relates to the handling of material in bulk and has special reference to a device arranged to enable railroad cars such as are sued for hauling coal, ore, and other like material to be unloaded by a single operation." (lines 13-18)
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Scardino, Mariano P. & Scardino, Peter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Device
Patent for a rail securing device which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date:
March 25, 1913
Creator:
Tritico, Leonard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Fire-Damaged Building at Texas A&M University]
Photograph showing a building on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M) damaged by a fire in May 1912. In this photo a demolition crew is manning a cannon and firing at the base of the building in order to complete the destruction of the building.
Date:
May 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Building Damaged by Fire at Texas A&M University]
Photograph of a building on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) after having been badly damaged by a fire. The roof and insides of the building have been burned away leaving only the outer walls left standing; there are piles of rubble in front of the main entrances to the building.
Date:
May 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Cadets Trying to Demolish a Damaged Building at Texas A&M University]
Photograph of a building on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) after having been damaged by fire. This photograph shows a large number of cadets using ropes to try to finish off the demolition of the building; the insides of the building are completely destroyed leaving only the brick outer walls.
Date:
May 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Damaged Building at Texas A&M University]
Photograph of a piece of one of the walls of a badly damaged building on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University). The only things left standing are the outer walls of the building since they were made of brick while the roof and insides were made of wood; cadets had tried using artillery and ropes to bring down the building.
Date:
May 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Side of a Damaged Building at Texas A&M]
Photograph of a building on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) having been badly damaged by a fire. Only the framework is left standing as most of the inside of the building has been totally destroyed; there are also a large number of men standing in formation to the right of the building.
Date:
May 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Badly Damaged Building at Texas A&M]
Photograph of a building on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) badly damaged by a fire. Most of the inside of the building has been completely destroyed leaving only the outer framework still standing.
Date:
May 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Burnt Building at Texas A&M]
Photograph of a burnt building with rubble piled up at the front entrance; most of the back of the building has been destroyed as you can seen daylight through all of the windows. The caption on the photo says: "A. M. College Fire May 1912," more specifically this was at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University).
Date:
May 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Texas A&M Tent City]
Photograph of "tent city," rows of tents in a field that were used as ad hoc housing for cadets at Texas A&M College.
Date:
1918
Creator:
Fisher, Larry Jene
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard of Street Scene in Byran]
Postcard of a two story house with fenced front porch and sparse yard, described as "Street Scene, Bryan, Tex." The letter on the back is illegible. The postcard is addressed to "Miss Mamie McFaddin McFaddin Ave. Beaumont, Texas."
Date:
August 13, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bryan 1912 Sheet 10
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bryan in Brazos County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1912
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bryan 1912 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Bryan in Brazos County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1912
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History