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[Photograph of Texas A&M Tent City]

Photograph of "tent city," rows of tents in a field that were used as ad hoc housing for cadets at Texas A&M College.
Date: 1918
Creator: Fisher, Larry Jene
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship-Destroyer. (open access)

Airship-Destroyer.

Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Magazine-Projectile (open access)

Magazine-Projectile

Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History