Selective Call for Telegraph or Telephone Lines (open access)

Selective Call for Telegraph or Telephone Lines

Patent for a device that allows the user to ring a specific telephone or telegraph line without ringing the bells at other lines.
Date: September 30, 1902
Creator: Palmer, William, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geologic Reconnaissance of the Southwest Flank of the Zuni Uplift, New Mexico (open access)

Geologic Reconnaissance of the Southwest Flank of the Zuni Uplift, New Mexico

Report presenting the results of a survey in the southwest segment of the Zuni Uplift sedimentary formations. The report includes figures and plates that provide an overview of physical geography in the area, as well as economic geography, including mineral deposits.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Konigsmark, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculator (open access)

Calculator

Patent for a calculator which consists of semicircular device with movable pointers and number indexes printed on it that allows the pointers to be moved to different numbers to produce the answer to a math problem such as calculating the cost of goods sold by the pound in a store.
Date: December 21, 1909
Creator: Goss, George Wilson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History