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Bottle (open access)

Bottle

Patent for a a nursing bottle employing a jacket designed to hold the parts of the bottle together. Illustration included.
Date: September 18, 1906
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Vent (open access)

Bottle-Vent

Patent for "an open-sided vent-passage at the neck of the bottle, thus permitting the formation thereof at the time the bottle is blown and rendering the construction more simple and economically produced" (lines 16-20).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway. (open access)

Elevated Railway.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in elevated railways, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1900
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-refillable bottle. (open access)

Non-refillable bottle.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles" (line 5). "This invention relates to non-refillable bottles, and more particularly to mean sfor admitting air to such bottles, in connection with a valve-stopper for preventing the introduction of liquid into the bottle after the stopper has been placed in position." (lines 9-10)
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nursing-Bottle (open access)

Nursing-Bottle

Patent for nursing bottle with a removable side wall so the it can be easily cleaned.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chainless Bicycle. (open access)

Chainless Bicycle.

Patent for a new and useful chainless bicycle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1900
Creator: Baker, Erle K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle. (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle.

Patent for a non-refillable bottle. The invention "relates to bottles in general, and more particularly to that class known as "non-refillable" bottles, and has for its object to provide a cheap and simple device of this nature that when once emptied cannot be refilled either by floating, by exhausting the air therefrom, or by pouring thereinto" (lines 11-17). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Bogue, Robert J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer (open access)

Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer

Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Bogue, Robert Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer (open access)

Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer

Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Bogue, Robert Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle. (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle.

Patent for a specification to improve the design and function non-refillable bottles.
Date: July 24, 1900
Creator: Bonner, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap. (open access)

Insect-Trap.

Patent for new and useful improvements in insect-traps, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1900
Creator: Boyd, George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of the Paris area, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of the Paris area, Texas

Text describes the location and boundaries, history, climate, physiography and geology, soils, and agricultural conditions of the Paris area of Texas.
Date: 1904
Creator: Caine, Thomas A. & Kocher, A. E. (Arthur E.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Bait (open access)

Artificial Bait

Patent for an artificial bait. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Caldwell, Charley D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fly Fish Hook (open access)

Artificial Fly Fish Hook

Patent for an artificial fly fish hook. Illustration included.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: Caldwell, Charley D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension Car-Step (open access)

Extension Car-Step

Patent for an extension car step. Illustrations included.
Date: August 20, 1907
Creator: Cameron, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener (open access)

Tire-Tightener

Patent for a tire tightener. Illustrations included.
Date: December 31, 1907
Creator: Cameron, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrier-Frame for Baskets. (open access)

Carrier-Frame for Baskets.

Patent for a carrier frame for moving baskets up and down in a store, which does not get tangled with the basket ropes.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Cameron. James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-holder. (open access)

Rein-holder.

Patent for simple, inexpensive and efficient rein holder "adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle and capable of ready adjustment to arrange it to suit the height of a horse and of supporting the lines and of preventing them from coming in contact with the tail of the animal" (lines 11-16).
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Campbell, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Computing Yardstick (open access)

Computing Yardstick

Patent for an attachment to yardsticks in order to compute correct measurements. Illustration included.
Date: March 29, 1904
Creator: Cogburn, William S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[T&P Depot in Blossom, Texas]

Photograph of the T&P train station in Blossom, Texas. There is a small group of people lined up to the left of the building. Printed on the photo is "T&P Depot 1909 Blossom, Texas." Written below the image is "H. D. Conner Collection."
Date: 1909
Creator: Conner, H. D.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scraper. (open access)

Scraper.

Patent for an adjustable road and ditch building scraper.
Date: September 29, 1908
Creator: Edzards, Harm Uden
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail Box Signal (open access)

Mail Box Signal

Patent for a mail box signal. Illustration included.
Date: July 17, 1906
Creator: Forwood, Reginald
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Paris Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1903
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivating Machine (open access)

Cultivating Machine

Patent for a cultivating machine. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Gray, Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History