Internal Combustion Engine (open access)

Internal Combustion Engine

Patent for a improved Internal Combustion Engine. The improvement is the construction of the ignition of the internal combustion engine where the fuel in the compression chamber is ignited explosion of a different fuel of a more highly explosive nature.
Date: August 9, 1921
Creator: Simpson, Joseph Ryan.
System: The Portal to Texas History
End-Gate Lock. (open access)

End-Gate Lock.

Patent for "a fastening for end-gates of wagons and the like, the arrangement of parts being such as to permit the end-gate being always held in a locked position until it is desired to lower or raise the same." (lines 11-15).
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Murray, Nicholas Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History