Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for a tool used for wire fences. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Dikes, Johnnie C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownwood 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: 1910
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter (open access)

Stalk Cutter

Patent for stalk cutter. This invention consists of rotating knives that severs the stalks into several pieces for use as fertilizer. Illustrations included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Davis, Thomas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Sign. (open access)

Electric Sign.

Patent for an electric sign, which lights up each letter individually and turns them all off at the same time after being on a short while.
Date: May 24, 1910
Creator: Miller, Leonard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fish Net (open access)

Fish Net

Patent for fish net. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1910
Creator: Gilstrap, David P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roof-Shoe (open access)

Roof-Shoe

Patent for shoes worn by carpenters working on shingle roofs. Illustrations included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Phinny, Christopher W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moldboard for Cultivator-Shovels. (open access)

Moldboard for Cultivator-Shovels.

Patent for a moldboard for cultivator shovels, which throws dirt to the side of the cultivator.
Date: June 28, 1910
Creator: Medcalf, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Displaying Merchandise. (open access)

Device for Displaying Merchandise.

Patent for improvement in devices for displaying merchandise by providing a portable display device comprising a horizontally disposed frame removably secured to and supported upon standards and from which the merchandise is suspended for display. (Lines 17-21) Illustration is included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Binford, Jackson S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History