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Blow-Off Cock and Fire-Extinguisher
Patent for "a new and improved blow-off cock and fire-extinguisher to be used on locomotives for cleaning the boiler, and at the same time serving to sprinkle wooden structures in the track, such as bridges, railroad-ties, trestles, &c., to prevent their being set on fire by falling cinders discharged from the ash-pan of the locomotive or from other causes" (lines 8-16)
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Michell, Lucius E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Can
Patent for a garbage receptacle, water proof in nature, to be used in outside places. A removable container allows for the prevention of tampering and a foot operated mechanism allows it to be efficient to utilize.
Date:
April 13, 1915
Creator:
Jones, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History