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Air-Cycle
Patent for an air cycle that allows a person to fly by pedaling. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Price, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date:
January 14, 1913
Creator:
Link, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Support and Bracket for Shade-Rollers and Curtains
Patent for a support for roller shades and window curtains. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Swing and Other Articles of Furniture
Patent for a porch swing that can be converted into other different articles of furniture. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Sanders, Ira B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Unidentified Man in Suit
Studio portraits of a dark-haired young man from the bust up. He is wearing a dark corduroy jacket with a pin on the lapel, vest, white collared shirt and a striped tie. His hair is parted in the center.
Date:
January 15, 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for an improvement in the function and use of a valve which gets rid of the wire usually used to raise tank valves. Getting rid of this wire allows for easier drainage.
Date:
January 20, 1914
Creator:
Axtell, Fred W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Educational Chart, Drawing-Board, and Writing-Desk.
Patent for "a combined desk and blackboard" (line 68) that includes illustrations.
Date:
January 13, 1914
Creator:
Henderson, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Generating and Carbureting Hydrogen.
Patent for an apparatus that will improve the cost efficiency of producing gas. Specifically, this invention details a "main tank which produces hydrogen and an auxiliary tank wherein the hydrogen is mixed with crude petroleum oil and thereby given its illuminating and combustible properties" (lines 18-23).
Date:
January 27, 1914
Creator:
Stuart, Charles V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for an airplane (or aeroplane) which provides a large number of control surfaces adjustable by the pilot, including a moveable engine.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Millican, Joel Walter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring-Bar.
Patent for improvement in boring-bars, particularly in the ability to hold the tool securely "in place during operation and which will prevent the cutting tool from becoming loose in its socket or holder" (lines 12-15). Additional operations include the boring bar turning off or cutting on the outside in instances "where the lathe will not swing over the carriage" (line 19) and the cutting on both "the inside or outside of the work equally as well" (lines 16-18).
Date:
January 21, 1919
Creator:
Bird, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 21, 1911
Weekly student newspaper from Polytechnic College in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to students and college personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 21, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1911
Weekly student newspaper from Polytechnic College in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to students and college personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 14, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 28, 1911
Weekly student newspaper from Polytechnic College in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to students and college personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 28, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 7, 1911
Weekly student newspaper from Polytechnic College in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to students and college personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 7, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1910
Weekly student newspaper from Polytechnic College in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to students and college personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 29, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 22, 1910
Weekly student newspaper from Polytechnic College in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to students and college personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 22, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1910
Weekly student newspaper from Polytechnic College in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to students and college personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 15, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1910
Weekly student newspaper from Polytechnic College in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to students and college personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 8, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Salsberg-Fox Wedding]
Photograph of the 1916 wedding of Gertrude Fox and Archie Salsberg on the altar at Congregation Ahavath Sholom's synagogue in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The bride and groom stand in the center of the photograph, surrounded by men wearing tuxedos and top hats and women wearing silk and taffeta dresses. Above the bridal party is a wedding canopy (called a Chuppah in Hebrew). It takes the shape of an arbor covered with flowers and crepe paper resembling wedding bells. Above the arbor there is a ledge containing two tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, written in Hebrew, with a potted plant and sculpted lion on either side. A large portion of the lower-right corner of the photograph is missing.
Date:
January 16, 1916
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mary Alice Bobo
Mary Alice Bobo, wife of Weldon Wiles Bobo, on 80th Birthday. They moved from Bedford County, Tennessee in 1870.
Date:
January 13, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 12, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to camp personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 12, 1918
Creator:
Henson, Will S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 19, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to camp personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 1918
Creator:
Henson, Will S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 5, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to camp personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 5, 1918
Creator:
Henson, Will S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 26, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, Texas that includes news of interest to camp personnel along with advertising.
Date:
January 26, 1918
Creator:
Henson, Will S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History