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Serial/Series Title
Degree Department
Country
States
Year
Month
Device for Applying Bands to Bales
Patent for a machine which applies bands to different types of bales. Machine claims to be more efficient than other devices of its kind.
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
Armstrong, James E. & Eddleman, Dudley E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post
Patent for a new, original, and ornamental design for fence posts.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Jasper, Tolbert Fanning
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Badge
Patent for a design for an ornamental badge celebrating the Emancipation of slaves by Abraham Lincoln.
Date:
October 6, 1906
Creator:
Whitney, Junius P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Swaging Apparatus
Patent for a dental apparatus that produces gold facings and cusps for individual teeth, as well as plate and bridge work.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Crawford, Lyter H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Scraper
Patent for a wheel-scraper, which can be used in connection with a planter, or other farm machinery, or vehicles.
Date:
August 14, 1906
Creator:
Davis, Edward & Dellinger, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Tom Roberts' Produce Display at the Llano Hotel]
Photograph of Tom Roberts' display of produce in front of the Llano Hotel in Midland. The produce, sourced from Roberts' farm west of Midland, has been brought in front of the hotel on a wagon pulled by two horses and a cow, and the display bears tall sheaths of grain, watermelons, vegetables, small fruits, and other large produces placed within the wagon and adjacent to its wheels. Tom Roberts, who owned the first herd of registered Jersey cattle in the county, leans against his wagon (marked as 7). Several people in the display are numbered below: 1. Mr. Dell Dublin; 2. Mr. Bob Slaughter; 3. Spence Jowell (these three men standing at left); 4. Holly Roberts (behind cow, in front of horse); 5. Jack Carter; 6. W. B. Elkins; 6a. Carl Roberts (in wagon, behind Elkins) 7. T. B. (Tom) Roberts; 7a. Charles McClintic (inside wagon, between grains); 8. Miss Ozello Roberts; 9. Gene McKinzie (hand on wagon wheel); 10. Mr. George McGonagill. A reproduction of the photograph included in a newspaper clipping is attached.
Date:
September 1906
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Five Cowboys]
Photograph of five cowboys, gathered together in two rows in front of a painted backdrop. Along the top row, seated on a bench: Pat Talmadge, Charlie Brown (holding a lasso), and Bob Preston. Along the bottom row, seated on the floor: Joe Stokes and Bud Milligan.
Date:
1906
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill
Patent for a drill. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 28, 1906
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill
Patent for a improvement for Drills and its usefulness.
Date:
August 28, 1906
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutter Head
Patent for a cutter head. This invention is used for shaping and dressing jambs. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 30, 1906
Creator:
Heckel, Albert F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derrick
Patent for a derrick. Illustration included.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
McClain, Thomas & McDaniel, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene-gas generator which automatically feeds carbid to the generator and in which the gas generated is washed within the bell.
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
Nunn, John W. & Griffin, Thomas D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Row Planter Carriage
Patent for a double row planter carriage. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 23, 1906
Creator:
Graves, Elbert G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for an acetylene gas generator, which claims to improve upon this device by simplifying the "means for feeding carbid to the water," (line 14) hence making it "more efficient and durable in use and less expensive to manufacture." (lines 19-21)
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
Dulaney, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Little, Leander H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
Date:
December 11, 1906
Creator:
Hays, Parx Orr
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Bates, General Lowel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for an attachment to a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Mitchell, Wade H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Wright, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for cultivator attachment improvement "for the purpose of thinning cotton plants to save chopping" (p. 1, lines 9-10). Improved cultivator attachment is used in conjunction with cultivator shovel to cause intermittent deposition of soil on plants to achieve thinning.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Teeter, William Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calf-Weaner.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Calf-Weaners." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Chandler, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Metallic Trunk-Strap.
Patent for an adjustable metallic trunk strap that connects in multiple directs so that they will reinforce the trunk while allowing it to be opened. It includes illustrations of the strap on the trunk and various components in detail.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Mertins, John Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for the Cultivator that helps in expanding and contracting the beams and to adjust the length as required.
Date:
March 6, 1906
Creator:
Martin, William Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coverer For Planters
Patent for a coverer for planters. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 27, 1906
Creator:
Stapp, George & Robertson, Newton K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History