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Automatic Fire Extinguisher.
Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design is "to provide for automatically putting out a fire in any building in which [the] apparatus may be located, upon the temperature in said building or room reaching any predetermined degree. This result is accomplished by the action of an expansible fluid—such as mercury—in a contained vessel, which actuates certain . . . mechanism, causing the structure to be flooded with water or with a fire-extinguishing gas or fluid" (lines 22-32).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Fuller, Wily Scott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ring-Mandrel
Patent for "new and useful improvements in ring mandrels, for use in shaping up and rounding and dressing bands of different diameters &c., &c." lines 15-18
Date:
April 30, 1918
Creator:
Hinson, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History