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Apparatus for Irrigating Land.
Patent for a new and improved irrigation machine. This design "consists in an irrigating-pipe having lapped side joints and notches in the inner edges of the lapped joints. The invention also consists in the combination, with a tank, of a trough below it, tubes projecting from the trough, and irrigating-pipes connected with the said tubes" (lines 12-18).
Date:
November 17, 1885
Creator:
Briggs, Elias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow
Patent for a gang-plow to be used when gangs of disks are used to turn over the soil so that it generates minimal friction and thus increasing efficiency.
Date:
November 15, 1892
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for a new windmill design with improvement to the "mechanism for transmitting the motion of the wheel shaft to the pump rods."
Date:
November 25, 1902
Creator:
Morrisson, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History