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Bell County
Map of Bell County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
February 8, 1879
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments
Patent for the improvement in Steam Wash-Boiler Attachments.
Date:
February 11, 1873
Creator:
Hart, Richard B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for an improved design of the rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date:
February 6, 1877
Creator:
Willson, Hodgen I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators.
Patent for a new improvement in combined plows, planters, and cultivators, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Urban, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date:
February 23, 1875
Creator:
Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter.
Patent for an improvement of a corn-planter using a combinations of, a rotary seed plate that has a circumferential series of perforations, a spherical weight or ball acts as ejector, and a hopper that has a circular opening on the bottom to work together “to prevent too large quantities of seed from entering the seed-cups, but which shall also serve to forcibly eject the seeds at the proper time” (lines 19-22), illustration is included.
Date:
February 10, 1891
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine.
Patent for improvements in type-writers by compactly arranged many parts together, such as the sliding block, the vibrating plate, the feed-roller and etc..., "and in which the work can at all times be viewed by the operator. The printing is accomplished on a flat surface... new sheets thus saved,” (p. 4, lines 111-118). Illustration is included.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Pierce, Jesse W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists, "with the beam and two or more depending bolts and two or more series of opposite flanged supporting plates mounted on the bolts, of two or more pairs of bifurcated L-shaped opposite hangers mounted in the plates and held rigid by the latter, and side beams, and bolts passing through the side beams and supports and making the side beams adjustable" (lines 4-12).
Date:
February 11, 1890
Creator:
Walton, Sam Houston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design is "compris[ed of] the parallel beams, the standards erected on said beams near the centers thereof, the transverse bars connecting the standards in pairs, the longitudinal bearing-bar secured to and between the said transverse bars, the king-bolt journaled in said bearing-bars, the sweep secured to the upper end of the king-bolt, the drive-wheel secured to the lower end of the king-bolt and having a single depending crank-pin, the press-boxes at the ends of the beams, the plungers in said press-boxes, and the pitmen" (lines 86-98).
Date:
February 5, 1889
Creator:
Mayes, Thomas T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists in the detailed construction . . . by which the operator is enabled to see each seed in its passage from the planting-wheel to the ground, and so can guard against the disadvantage of some of the rows being only half planted, from the seed-spout getting stopped up, or from the planter-wheel failing to act properly, and in other improvements" (lines 13-21).
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Lovick, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a simplified washing machine by constructing it with "double bottoms and sides, and in providing the said machines with means by which the washing-liquid is made to flow upward between the said sides and downward upon the article or articles to be washed; and it also consists in providing suitable means whereby said articles or articles may be drained" (lines 14-20).
Date:
February 14, 1888
Creator:
McCausland, William I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Printer's Galley.
Patent for an "invention to dispense with the usual quoins for locking up the printed matter in a galley and to provide in lieu thereof an adjustable lock-up device of novel construction." (Lines 14-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1896
Creator:
Denison, Frank L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter.
Patent for a cotton planter by using a pivoted spring-actuated tongue that has a feed-slot and regulating-slide to plant cotton or corn seeds easily and quickly. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton press that gets cotton from a gin, forms it into a soft bat, and compresses it into a bale. The operator can tie a band around the bale. It consists of a frame, rollers, and gears.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Evening News. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 118, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 8, 1916
Daily newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with literature and extensive advertising.
Date:
February 8, 1916
Creator:
Savage, H. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Weekly Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 41, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 13, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 13, 1858
Creator:
Marschalk, Andrew, Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 19, 1859
Creator:
Marschalk, A., Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 26, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 26, 1859
Creator:
Marschalk, A., Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Farmer (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 23, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. The paper is the "official medium of communication for the Texas State Grange" (Vol. 2, No. 5).
Date:
February 23, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baylor Quarterly. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 1, 1888
Quarterly college newspaper from Belton, Texas "Conducted by the Literary Societies of Baylor Female College -- The Academia and the Historical" containing literature, campus news, and advertising.
Date:
February 1, 1888
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1908
Semi-weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 6, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1908
Semi-weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 13, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1908
Semi-weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 20, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1908
Semi-weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 27, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History