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The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session Forty-Second Congress; An Appendix, Embracing the Laws Passed at That Session (open access)

The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session Forty-Second Congress; An Appendix, Embracing the Laws Passed at That Session

The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date: 1873
Creator: United States. Congress.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session Forty-Second Congress; An Appendix, Embracing the Laws Passed at That Session (open access)

The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session Forty-Second Congress; An Appendix, Embracing the Laws Passed at That Session

The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date: 1873
Creator: United States. Congress.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session Forty-Second Congress; An Appendix, Embracing the Laws Passed at That Session (open access)

The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session Forty-Second Congress; An Appendix, Embracing the Laws Passed at That Session

The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date: 1873
Creator: United States. Congress.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c. (open access)

Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c.

Patent for an improved apparatus for steaming and cleaning barrels for the reception of resin, turpentine, oils, molasses, sirups, and other like liquids.
Date: May 5, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Extension Hat-Brims. (open access)

Improvement in Extension Hat-Brims.

Patent for a "new and Improved Extension Hat Brim" (lines 3-4) with folding arms to extend the brim, including illustrations.
Date: July 8, 1873
Creator: Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles. (open access)

Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.

Patent for new and useful improvement in wagon hubs that includes one-piece attachment and spokes that can be cut by metal strips by exposed to no injury, including illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: McNalley, Michael
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills (open access)

Improvement in Windmills

Patent for the improvement of wind mills, that includes a detailed description as well as labeled figure drawings.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Weeding-Hoes. (open access)

Improvement in Weeding-Hoes.

Patent for improvment of "the construction of weeding-hoes; and it consists in providing the same with an inclined cutting-edge, in such a way that they will enter and pass through the ground more easily than hoes constructed in the ordinary manner." (11-16)including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 26, 1873
Creator: Crossland, Henry S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills. (open access)

Improvement in Windmills.

Patent for a "self-regulating windmill, so arranged that it will automatically exclude the wind from the wheel during storms and irregular or sudden squalls of wind, while it will equally enlarge the opening through which the wind is admitted to the wheel, whenever the power of the wind is reduced." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1873
Creator: Davie, John P. & Morgan, Asa
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles. (open access)

Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.

Patent for "an improved hub for buggy and other vehicle wheels, which shall be simple in construction, strong, and durable, and which will run with little friction." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Brown, David
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms. (open access)

Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms.

Patent for improvement in cotton-lint rooms. These rooms are used with gins that seperate the seeds from the cotton.
Date: May 13, 1873
Creator: Crenshaw, William T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Riding-Saddles. (open access)

Improvements in Riding-Saddles.

Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
Date: June 10, 1873
Creator: Hamil, Robert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Running Gears for Wagons. (open access)

Improvements in Running Gears for Wagons.

Patent for improvement in running gears for wagons. Improvement for class of vehicles in which the axles revolve with the wheels.
Date: June 24, 1873
Creator: Meddows, Issac Orson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments (open access)

Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments

Patent for the improvement in Steam Wash-Boiler Attachments.
Date: February 11, 1873
Creator: Hart, Richard B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vibrating Propellers (open access)

Improvement in Vibrating Propellers

Patent for Improvement in vibrating propellers for steamers to improve the ability to control the vessel. Includes two illustrated and labeled figures.
Date: February 18, 1873
Creator: Macowitzky, Charles P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patent for an improvement in waching machine design, including illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: Millegan, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tents. (open access)

Improvement in Tents.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in military tents that relates to folding tents including illustrations.
Date: April 8, 1873
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Turpentine-Stills. (open access)

Improvement in Turpentine-Stills.

Patent for improvement in turpentine distillation and purification with bleaching and refinement.
Date: May 6, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patent for "washing-machines known as self-regulating machines; and consists in the arrangement for controlling at will the amount of pressure to be used, in combination with the construction of the feed and washing rollers." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1873
Creator: Rowland, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Manufacture of Fertilizers. (open access)

Improvement in the Manufacture of Fertilizers.

Patent for a process of treating waste animal matter from tallow-rendering factories with plaster-of-paris for use as fertilizer.
Date: November 25, 1873
Creator: Stevens, Hennell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Propulsion of Vessels. (open access)

Improvement in the Propulsion of Vessels.

Patent for improvement in vibrating propellers with continued paddle action that can be attached to a line of boats.
Date: December 30, 1873
Creator: Macowitzky, Charles P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Fluting-Machines.

Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
Date: January 14, 1873
Creator: Saunders, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Nails. (open access)

Improvement in Nails.

Patent for a nail with hexagonal form with two sides nearly flat and beveled edges.
Date: January 21, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for an improvement in the design of corn and cotton cultivators, including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History