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Automatic Railway-Switch. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Patent for a railway-switch by enabling the switch operate automatically when a train is passing by. Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Wilson, James Newton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Rowell, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus (open access)

Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus

Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Stay Bolt (open access)

Boiler Stay Bolt

Patent for a boiler stay bolt. This design is made of flexible stay-bolts for boiler allowing for movement bracing sheets. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Borneman, Lewis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for treating lint cotton as it passes from the gin for bleaching. Illustration included.
Date: February 25, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an improved self-setting trap that can capture and kill animals while preventing them from reaching the bait.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Sheridan, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton

Patent for a machine for bleaching seed cotton before it ginned.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Railway-Rail (open access)

Compound Railway-Rail

Patent for a compound railway-rail. This invention is a solid open jointed rail whereby two longitudinal section may be brought together without creating open joints. Illustration included.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Stephens, George B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compress and Packer (open access)

Compress and Packer

Patent for a device that provides improvements in machines for compressing, packing, and baling cotton, hay, straw, and the like; and the object is to provide a machine of this character operating automatically to form the bat as the material is received from the gin or condenser and folding the bat back and forth in even layers in the press, forming a complete and symmetrical bale (lines 9-17) Illustrations are included.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Griffin, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Replacer (open access)

Car Replacer

Patent for a car replacer. This invention is designed for the replacement of derailed locomotives, cars, and stock pens to the rails. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Bowman, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen (open access)

Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen

Patent for an antifriction device used to "prevent dust and grit from accumulating in the anti-friction bearings" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Neighbour, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Cover (open access)

Can Cover

Patent for a can cover. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1908
Creator: Pratt, James R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press Attachment (open access)

Baling Press Attachment

Patent for baling press attachment. Illustration included.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Jackson, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles (open access)

Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles

Patent for an apparatus for controlling trolley poles. "This invention relates to an apparatus for controlling trolley poles employed for effecting electrical connection between a trolley wire and a motor on a car, and has for its object to provide improved means for automatically throwing the trolley into position to be placed in engagement with the trolley wire" (line 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Bogue, Judson L. & Jennings, David M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap (open access)

Ant-Trap

Patent for "a simple device of this kind which will excel the former traps in depositing the ants within the annular pan and in efficiency for convenient discharge of the trapped insects" (lines 18-22).
Date: April 2, 1901
Creator: Inman, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Closure (open access)

Can Closure

Patent for a can closure. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Brundrett, Arnold
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for a chopper and cultivator with a rod with moveable blades attached that allows for the blades to be changed between different types for planting or cultivating.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Odom, Elbert T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can (open access)

Can

Patent for a can. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Hanna, Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Railway Rail (open access)

Compound Railway Rail

Patent for a compound railway rail. This invention is comprised of separate tread and base parts. Illustration included.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Finley, Alfred P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard From Joseph to Mr. and Mrs. Pennington, 1908]

Postcard from William Joseph Pennington to Mr. and Mrs. William Pennington with a photograph of a young child. The postcard reads: " Happy Easter ". The postcard shows a rabbit driving a vehicle with a large egg.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Pennington, Joseph
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 128, Ed. 1 Friday, July 13, 1900 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 128, Ed. 1 Friday, July 13, 1900

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 13, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 129, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 14, 1900 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 129, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 14, 1900

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 14, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 215, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 1900 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 215, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 1900

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 24, 1900
Creator: Bowles, J. F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 216, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1900 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 216, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1900

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 25, 1900
Creator: Bowles, J. F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History