Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines.

Patent for a rattoon-cutting machine which is created to "rapidly pull up and cut into short lengths the stubbles and roots of sugar cane (styled "rattoon") which are left upon the ground after the crop has been gathered" (lines 5-9), includes illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1875
Creator: Angers, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screw Jack (open access)

Screw Jack

Patent for improvements in screw jacks.
Date: March 25, 1919
Creator: Ewing, H. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle. (open access)

Bicycle.

Patent for "...a bicycle-frame so constructed that it is adapted to yield automatically...thereby doing away with the necessity of using pneumatic and puncturable tires..." (lines 10-11, 15-17) including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Smith, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History