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Car-Mover
Patent for a car mover designed to move train cars along the tracks and sidings. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 30, 1908
Creator:
Peek, Joseph S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kerrville 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:
1904
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fredericksburg 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:
1906
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for an insect destroyer specifically for use in removing boll weevils from cotton plants by shaking them off the plants and sucking them up with suction tubes which deliver them to a crushing mechanism.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Peek, Joseph S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag Catcher
Patent for a mailbag catcher to be used with trains. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 12, 1909
Creator:
Peek, Joseph S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thimble.
Patent for an improved design of thimble which includes a needle-threader and a thread-cutter that can be used without removal of the thimble from the finger through the design of metal cone shapes as part of the thimble's design.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Huntington, Spencer Hinsdale
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument.
Patent for a tonsilotome/enucleator for cutting the tonsils out during a tonsillectomy without injuring the pillars.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Combs, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medicated Salt Rock
Patent for "improved medicated salt rock to be used for keeping cattle, horses, and other live stock in good condition, to serve as a tonic and blood-purifier, also to expel worms from the stomach and intestines, and to eradicate ticks and vermin" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 23, 1901
Creator:
Green, Charles O; Wickline, William P. & Eaton, James B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medicated Salt Brick.
Patent for a formula for a livestock salt brick that purports improve animal health. The formula includes salt, clay, sulfur, saltpeter, copperas, nux vomica, and santonin.
Date:
February 24, 1903
Creator:
Eaton, James B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Lowering or Raising Drill Disks or Plows.
Patent for a means of raising and lowering drill disks on plows to allow the machine to travel and not get tangled in obstructions such as underbrush or rocks.
Date:
February 2, 1909
Creator:
Burks, William Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History