Steam Engine. (open access)

Steam Engine.

Patent for a new and improved steam-engine. This design "relates to certain improvements in compound steam-engines; and it has for its objects to lessen friction and provide for the effective working of such engines" (lines 8-11).
Date: September 23, 1884
Creator: Catlin, Eli
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Converting Motion. (open access)

Device for Converting Motion.

Patent for device that converts "motion of the piston-rod in steam engines into a rotary motion" (lines 10-11).
Date: January 29, 1884
Creator: Catlin, Eli
System: The Portal to Texas History