Safety Car Net (open access)

Safety Car Net

Patent for safety car-net to be attached to train freight-cars closing the space between adjacent cars and protecting train workers from falling.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Matthews, Harrison C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remedial Appliance. (open access)

Remedial Appliance.

Patent for a remedial appliance, intended to be worn as a bracelet or an "anklet," through which a person receives medication that he/she needs. Such an appliance is intended to improve treatment through facilitating the application of medication throughout the body.
Date: December 9, 1913
Creator: Quayle, Sidney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Protractor (open access)

Protractor

Patent for a new protractor design that is “particularly to a protractor or gage for use by carpenters in cutting the rafters for a building roof” (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Ernest, Albert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History