Brick Truck (open access)

Brick Truck

Patent for a truck that is designed to make the transportation of bricks easier as well as the transportation of other materials.
Date: September 22, 1905
Creator: Sacks, Martin Kuno
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber. (open access)

Apparatus for Treating Timber.

Patent for an invention to aid in the treatment of treating timber. The invention is said to "provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient apparatus by means of which railroad cross-ties, fence-posts, and the like may be expeditiously and economically treated by immersion in a bath of some preserving liquid" (lines 16-22) including illustrations.
Date: July 11, 1905
Creator: Gerhard, Philip H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of the Austin area, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of the Austin area, Texas

Text describing climate, agriculture, and soils of the Austin area, Texas.
Date: 1905
Creator: Mangum, A. W. & Belden, H. L. (Herbert L.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, Austin sheet

Map displays soil types along with topography, rock outcroppings, creeks, rivers, springs, falls, towns, stores, colleges, roads, and railroads. Legend includes soil profiles.
Date: 1905
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Georgetown Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1905
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater (open access)

Water-Heater

Patent for a device whereby water or other liquid may be heated instantaneously. (line 10-11)
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Hutchins, Rufus J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire (open access)

Tire

Patent for a tire. Illustration included.
Date: May 9, 1905
Creator: Gordon, Mary S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Generating Oil Burner (open access)

Generating Oil Burner

Patent for generating oil burner. This invention "relates to apparatus by which steam is generated and petroleum or a hydrocarbon reduced to vaporous condition and mixed or combined with the steam" (line 8-12). Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Spiller, Philip Samuel & Haldeman, Horace P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time Switch (open access)

Electric Time Switch

Patent for electric time switch. Illustration included.
Date: February 14, 1905
Creator: Gerhard, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History