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Clamp for Pump Rods and Well Tubes (open access)

Clamp for Pump Rods and Well Tubes

Patent for a clamp for pump rods and well tubes. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Fisher, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Berry, Phillip Anderson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel (open access)

Vehicle Wheel

Patent for a vehicle wheel. Illustration included.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Wylie, Alfred R. & Wright, James G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel (specifically for automobiles) that has high resiliency because of conical interacting pressure surfaces using springs mounted in the hub of the wheel rim.
Date: October 10, 1911
Creator: Wylie, Alfred R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel equipped with a substitute for the pneumatic tire. This wheel will have an inner and outer hub, spaced from each other and adapted to undergo relative motion, coiled springs being mounted radially upon the outer hub which serve to communicate rotation from one hub to the other.
Date: May 14, 1912
Creator: Wylie, Alfred R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Acting Pump (open access)

Double-Acting Pump

Patent for a pump that obtains a supply of fluid from both strokes of the piston and delivers the fluid through a continuous stream. Illustrations included.
Date: August 30, 1910
Creator: Arnold, Henry Brown
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 8

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 7

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 6

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Spring 1914 Sheet 9

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Big Spring in Howard County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for improving attachment for a cultivator whereby an ordinary cultivator and wherein the cutting blade is effectively held against displacement after the attachment has been applied to a beam.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Griffice, George D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel that improves on automobile pneumatic tires by having a "plurality of springs," with a rigid inner rim and an outer rim connected with these springs so as to absorb the force of any shock. The design is strong, simple, and durable.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Wylie, Alfred R. & Wright, James G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Making Continuous Concrete Pipes or Tiles (open access)

Means for Making Continuous Concrete Pipes or Tiles

Patent for a means for creating continuous pipes or tiles which can be used for the underground pipelines.
Date: August 17, 1915
Creator: Thomas, O. Berry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refillable Multiple Fuse Plug (open access)

Refillable Multiple Fuse Plug

Patent for a fuse plug that can be used multiple time without chargine, and includes several arms in its interior that allows for usage even if on fuse arm is blown, it can simply be moved to the next one.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Berry, Thomas O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From J. A. Martin, Jr. to Sayles & Sayles, February 27, 1911] (open access)

[Letter From J. A. Martin, Jr. to Sayles & Sayles, February 27, 1911]

Letter from J. A. Martin, Jr. to Sayles & Sayles discussing two letters from Sayles & Sayles to Martin and stating that Martin is returning to Toyah, Texas. The letter is on the stationary of the Hotel Cole in Big Spring, Texas.
Date: February 27, 1911
Creator: Martin, J. A., Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Watermelon Field]

Postcard image of a watermelon field in Big Springs, Texas. In the image workers are in the field checking the watermelons and one worker is visible carrying watermelons in his arms. Handwritten text on the back is addressed to Mrs. Annie E. Copeland from Ovalo, Texas.
Date: 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Valve (open access)

Check-Valve

Patent for improved check values in relation to a boiler of locomotives, to better secure priming and increase forcing power of its injector.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Deinert, Hans Gustav Joachim
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Heading Machine. (open access)

Grain-Heading Machine.

Patent for a grain-heading machine for "gathering broom corn, sorghum, maize and the like" (lines 12-13).
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Davidson, Rufus Burley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History