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Spark-Producing Mechanism for Explosive-Engines. (open access)

Spark-Producing Mechanism for Explosive-Engines.

Patent for a spark producing mechanism for explosive engines, which serves as a starter for the engine when the vehicle is first turned on.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Stamps, Lorenzo Dan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drying Kiln (open access)

Drying Kiln

Patent for a kiln to be used as a drying chamber for drying and curing of lumber. Illustrations included.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Stephens, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Lock (open access)

Bicycle Lock

Patent for a bicycle lock. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Hayford, Samuel & Hayford, Kirby
System: The Portal to Texas History
Potato Digger. (open access)

Potato Digger.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in potato-diggers, designed to cut away the vines and to throw them out of the way of the plow-points." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Winfrey, Zachary T.
System: The Portal to Texas History