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Shell or Projectile. (open access)

Shell or Projectile.

Patent for a "shell or projectile for firing from large guns...which can be discharged from the gun without danger of the dynamite exploding from the shock incident to the projecting explosive" (lines 8-9, 11-14).
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Murphy, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter. (open access)

Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk and weed cutter. This design calls for "[a]n interchangeable cotton-stalk cutter and sulky plow . . . adapted to receive a plow at its rear end" (lines 67-70). The cutting blades can be raised and lowered as needed.
Date: March 21, 1882
Creator: Vannoy, James Harvey
System: The Portal to Texas History