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Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design has a reversible trough, "having bearings for the detachable rollers and provided with a pair of flat springs affixed rigidly to opposite sides and at opposite ends of the trough, hooked screw-bolts having thumb-screws, and shaft of the main roller" (lines 1-6).
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
Blake, Llewellyn A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consist[s] of a standard, two beams connected to the standard on opposite sides thereof, a crank-shaft held by the standard, suitable drive-gearing for operating the same, a pitman connecting the crank-shaft and the saw, a pendulum attached to the saw and the pitman at one end and to a sliding head-block at the other end, the head-block sliding in the slotted standards and having a rack-bar extended therefrom, a pawl engaging the rack, the operating-cord attached to the head-block and passing over a guide-pulley on the slotted standards" (lines 4-16).
Date:
November 3, 1885
Creator:
Boston, Arnet P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Base Board
Patent for base board. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 12, 1907
Creator:
Bryan, Augustus M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Load Lifter and Carrier.
Patent for an improved, simple, efficient, and inexpensive load lifter and carrier meant to be used in warehouses in order to load and unload barrels, bales, and other loads.
Date:
November 14, 1893
Creator:
Butcher, Tilman H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 2013
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 1, 2013
Creator:
Cantrell, Pearl
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 2013
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 8, 2013
Creator:
Cantrell, Pearl
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 2013
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 15, 2013
Creator:
Cantrell, Pearl
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 2013
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 22, 2013
Creator:
Cantrell, Pearl
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 2013
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 29, 2013
Creator:
Cantrell, Pearl
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1927
Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
November 17, 1927
Creator:
Colquitt, Pierce
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Supporting Device for Umbrellas.
Patent for a wearable umbrella holder, which holds the umbrella on the back and over the person's head to allow their hands to be free.
Date:
November 10, 1908
Creator:
Cumpston, Frederick B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton Press And Feeder
Patent for automatic cotton press and feeder. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 20, 1906
Creator:
Cumpston, Frederick Bernard; Sewell, T. W.; Page, R. J. & Young, M. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Dr. Leslie Eugene Kelton on the Back of a Mule]
Photograph of Dr. Leslie Eugene Kelton sitting on the back of a mule and holding a rifle. He wears a dark-colored outfit with a matching cap.
Date:
November 22, 1935
Creator:
Dickson, Tessie
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cross-Tie.
Patent for a railway cross-tie with concrete and metal parts, which is adjustable to different gages.
Date:
November 24, 1908
Creator:
Drane, Frank N. & Drane, Hugh A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for a cotton elevating and distributing device, one that feeds cotton to multiple gins at the same time. This device is meant to save time and be simply and efficiently constructed.
Date:
November 17, 1896
Creator:
Elliott, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 2012
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 2, 2012
Creator:
Epps, Sam
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, November 9, 2012
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 9, 2012
Creator:
Epps, Sam
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 2012
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 16, 2012
Creator:
Epps, Sam
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 2012
Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 23, 2012
Creator:
Epps, Sam
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Navarro Express (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 10, 1864
Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 10, 1864
Creator:
Garner, T. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a new and useful baling press, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1898
Creator:
Gowan, Albert G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Fanny Halbert - November 27, 1864]
Letter from Fanny Halbert to her husband, dated November 27, 1864. The letter tells of family business and visits from friends, as well as some mention of problems with using Confederate currency. Included with the original letter is a typed transcript.
Date:
November 27, 1864
Creator:
Halbert, Fanny
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blasting Plug.
Patent for a new and improved blasting plug. This design is "to improve the usefulness and efficiency of the device, to render it capable of more general application, to provide a construction whereby a given charge is rendered more powerful and effective, and to provide a divided blasting-plug . . . The invention consists more particularly in a cylindrical blasting-plug divided longitudinally into two separate or independent sections, one of which is formed with a disk-head having a vent orifice and made coextensive with the external caliber of the plug when the two sections are placed together" (lines 12-29).
Date:
November 5, 1889
Creator:
Holsey, Julius H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hames Fastener
Patent for a hames fastener, so that the hames will fit tightly on a horse collar when a strap is adjusted.
Date:
November 14, 1916
Creator:
Ingram, Lewis J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History