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San Marcos 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:
1919
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Austin 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
San Marcos 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:
1911
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco 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:
1918
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench that can also be used as a pipe. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 21, 1911
Creator:
Green, Eugene
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Tube Holder
Patent for a well tube holder for removing pipes from wells and holding them in place. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Preston, Lyman L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Cabinet.
Patent for a type cabinet for storing dating type.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Chapman, Mercer E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Cooling Device.
Patent for a water cooling device in refrigerators and iceboxes that provides drinking water from the ice compartment.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Boyer, Robert Y. & Caldwell, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Storage Battery.
Patent for a storage battery with a high number of amps.
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Lawrence, Arthur Ewin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device
Patent for brackets used to hold edible fluids to be frozen.
Date:
March 29, 1912
Creator:
Beckworth, Effie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shutter and Ventilator
Patent for a shutter that may be used as either window blinds or a ventilator. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 15, 1910
Creator:
Rylander, William Pitts
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shock Absorber.
Patent for shock absorbers the permit bodily movement on one of the parts to which these devices are usually connected in a vehicle.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Rife, Stanford Walton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Root-Puller.
Patent for a root puller for pulling up Mesquite tree root clumps.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
McGehee, George T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cable Clamp.
Patent for Drill-Cable Clamp is for a device that clamps the rope to which the drill connects. The rope can be rotated, while connected to both the drill and the drilling machine securely.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Clayton, Robert Fentress
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Protector.
Patent for improvements in plant-protection by providing a foraminous hood for young plants. This particular plant-protector is protect melon type and vegetable of similar qualities against worms, grubs, lice and other pests.
Date:
November 6, 1917
Creator:
Cook, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads
Patent for an attachment for a bedstead in order to hold a tray. The invention allows a tray, or trays, to be held over a bed to hold food, drink, or other items closer to the occupant.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Beechie, Simon Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump.
Patent for an air pump improvement that simpler and cheaper to produce. It also provides a description of "the combination and arragement of parts" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Runge, Friedrich Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vulcanizer
Patent for a product that vulcanizes the rubber of tire casings more easily. It holds a combustible fuel for heating and has a curved design to better fit the shape of the tire.
Date:
April 17, 1914
Creator:
Lawrence, Arthur E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Repeating Gun.
Patent for an improvement on toy repeating guns "which may be cocked and fired by manipulation of a single member and which embodies a magazine to receive a number of projectiles which automatically feeds by gravitative action into proper position to be projected by the striker or discharging member. " (lines 10-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1917
Creator:
Osborn, Carl B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Cannon
Patent for an improvement to toy cannons to enable marbles and other spherical objects can be fed into cannon and fired providing a varied range of distance.
Date:
March 14, 1916
Creator:
Osborn, Carl B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insulator
Patent for Insulator
Date:
November 14, 1916
Creator:
Williams, Roger A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Cultivator
Patent for an improvement to motor cultivators. It provides the operator a way to manually adjust the depth of the furrow and cultivator blade, including illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Runge, Friedrich Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same.
Patent for a polish for varnished woodwork
Date:
September 14, 1914
Creator:
Hancock, John Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door.
Patent for a door "that can be secured in either open or closed position either from the exterior or interior of the building on which the door is mounted" (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 19, 1914
Creator:
Niemann, Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History