Lamp. (open access)

Lamp.

Patent for improvements to headlight lamps used in locomotives, with illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1897
Creator: Pitts, William Wirt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support. (open access)

Tongue Support.

Patent for a new and improved tongue-support. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive tongue-support capable of being readily applied to any vehicle" (lines 9-12). It "consist[s] of the two wires provided intermediate their ends with coils and twisted together at opposite sides of the coils to provide the spring-arms" (lines 48-51).
Date: October 25, 1892
Creator: Johnson, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1904
Creator: Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
System: The Portal to Texas History