Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector. (open access)

Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector.

Patent for a new adjustable light shade and reflector with "a shade and a support therefor so provided with joints that the shade may be given any desired angle of reflection, relative to the light, and its relative distance from the light may be regulated" (lines 13-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Spivey, Lillian Hale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blower and Suction Device. (open access)

Blower and Suction Device.

Patent for a blower for a threshing machine that regulates the amount of air put out of the machine, and is both affordable and durable.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Brown, Harry M. & Dahl, Harry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for a machine that uses revolving brush cylinders, stationary brushes, and stripping boards to prepare cotton for ginning, including illustration.
Date: March 12, 1861
Creator: Eastham, A. S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Wharton County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Wharton County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Wharton County, Texas.
Date: March 1974
Creator: McEwen, Harry F. & Crout, Jack
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Heater. (open access)

Portable Heater.

Patent for a portable heater for heating water.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Ellis, Frank B. & Walker, James L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screen for Wells. (open access)

Screen for Wells.

Patent for a well screen for water or oil wells.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Dahl, Harry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Show-Case. (open access)

Show-Case.

Patent for a show case, which opens on the side and top to allow buyers to look at goods being sold and is easily collapsed for storage or shipment.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Soucek, Charles H. & Ustynik, Frank E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gang-Plow (open access)

Gang-Plow

Patent for Plowing
Date: March 30, 1909
Creator: Barnett, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment for Automobiles. (open access)

Draft Attachment for Automobiles.

Patent for a draft attachment for automobiles to aid in their movement from muddy or slippery conditions including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1918
Creator: Pietzsch, Cornelius O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an improved automatic acetylene-gas generator which allows the carbid vessel to recharge with carbid without permitting the escape of gas, and also to simplify the construction of the generator.
Date: March 19, 1901
Creator: Elkins, George L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History