Resource Type

Month

Waco Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1920
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Railway-Switch-Operating Mechanism

Patent for a railway operation switch which allows for the engineer of the train to operate the switch without the drawback of slowing the locomotive in question.
Date: 1920
Creator: Tally, Carl E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drag (open access)

Drag

Patent for a ground drag for "grading and removing refuse from the surface of the soil" (lines 10-12) that can be steered and that can gather and dispose of the dirt it levels off, including illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Nelson, Charley E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History