San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Hull, C. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self Cleaning Plow. (open access)

Self Cleaning Plow.

Patent for a new and improved self-cleaning plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a mold-board having a plane face on the larger portion of its area, a blade having an axle journaled near the center of the said plane, a wheel journaled in the plow, with its rim parallel to and extending below the landside of the plow, a beveled gear-wheel upon the said wheel-axle, and another beveled wheel upon the blade-axle, engaging each other" (lines 79-87).
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Jones, Allen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History