Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Trains (open access)

Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Trains

Patent for an automatic stopping mechanism for trains. Illustration included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Mingo, William, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter. (open access)

Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the seed-hopper and seed-slide, of the stationary catch and elastic spring-catch, both secured to the hopper and arranged to grasp the head of the brush" (lines 60-64).
Date: October 25, 1881
Creator: Brooks, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History