Vermin Exterminator and Process of Preparing the Same (open access)

Vermin Exterminator and Process of Preparing the Same

Patent for improve animal exterminator consists of wheat or other grain saturated with a solution of strychnia in water, the grain afterward being coated with a solution.
Date: January 4, 1887
Creator: Donovan, Cornelius A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Condenser. (open access)

Steam-Condenser.

Patent for an improved, simple, and compact steam-condenser that is meant to be used in tea factories and similar places where distilled water is needed, and has the minimum amount of back pressure.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Steinbarth, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Working Tool. (open access)

Wire Working Tool.

Patent for a new and useful wireworking-tool. "This invention relates to a wireworking-tool particularly adapted for use in twisting wire-ties around posts and over runners, drawing staples, and cutting wires" (line 8-11).
Date: February 4, 1902
Creator: Hargrove, Benjamin O.
System: The Portal to Texas History