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Improvement in Vehicle Axle-Lubricators
Patent for improvements to the design of axle lubricators, in which the oil reservoir is in the rear as opposed to the front.
Date:
October 14, 1879
Creator:
Hinkle, James V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-Hives.
Patent for a bee-hive that prevents insects (such as moths) from entering therein and maximizes the amount of honey collected from the hive, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
March 5, 1878
Creator:
Park, Jesse W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brazoria County.
Cadastral map of Brazoria County, Texas in the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:193,334 (5800 varas per inch).
Date:
1877
Creator:
Stevens, F. W.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Apparatus for Cutting Glue.
Patent for a design for a battery-powered wire glue cutter/slicer including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes for Preparing and Drying Glue.
Patent for a process of drying glue that uses superheated steam and a drying chamber.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Preserving Meats.
Patent for a method of preserving and canning meat. This describes the inventor's process, as well as his method of reducing air inside the container using hypophosphite of lime.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Soldering-Irons
Patent for a new and improved soldering iron, which only gives off so much heat from one end and not the other. This patent of the soldering iron a safer tool to work with.
Date:
March 21, 1877
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Manufacture of Fertilizers.
Patent for a process of treating waste animal matter from tallow-rendering factories with plaster-of-paris for use as fertilizer.
Date:
November 25, 1873
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Axle Bearings.
Patent for improvement in car-axle bearings in which "it consists in a box having a chambered back for containing oil, and having grooves along the straight edges of its bearing-surface for receiving a wick, the ends of which extend through holes in the box into the oil reservoir.”
Date:
December 3, 1878
Creator:
Stratton, Asa E., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters.
Patent for a medical compound prepared with whisky, gentian-root, cinchonabark, quassia and cloves which is intended as "a remedy for miasmatic fevers" (line 23) including instructions for the preparation and administration of the medicine.
Date:
January 23, 1872
Creator:
Turner, Richard G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Wilson, Joseph Erwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Brazoria County, Texas
Cadastral map of Brazoria County, Texas including the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas to the inch).
Date:
1879
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Guy M. Bryan's statement concerning Stephen F. Austin, 1879]
Copy of transcript for a statement made by Guy M. Bryan about John Wharton's thoughts on Stephen F. Austin.
Date:
1879
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from W. J. Russell to Guy M. Bryan, March 29, 1873]
Copy of transcript for a letter from W. J. Russell to Guy M. Bryan, in which Russell provides requested information about the life of Stephen F. Austin and early Texas history, (before 1837).
Date:
March 29, 1873
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History