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The Death Valley Expedition: A Biological Survey of Parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, Part 2
Collection of reports on Death Valley, the bordering region of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Reports include birds, reptiles and Batrachians, fishes, insects, mollusks, trees and shrubs, cactuses and yuccas, and list of localities in the reports.
Date:
May 31, 1893
Creator:
Fisher, A. K.; Stejneger, Leonhard; Gilbert, Charles H.; Riley, C. V.; Stearns, R. E. C.; Merriam, C. Hart et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Broom-Rack.
Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Smith, Walter I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Tight Heating-Stove
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Karner, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for a new and useful milk cooler, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Stephens, James E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for a new and useful hoe, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Willian, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Electric Car-Line.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in "elevated double-track electric car lines and car and electric-wire supports combined, including instructions and illustrations" (line 5 - 7).
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Cooley, Joe H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for a new and useful fertilizer distributer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Stell, Ira L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Ward, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plumb-Level.
Patent for a new and useful level of " that class embodying a pivoted index-finger operating in conjunction with a graduated dial" (line 7 10).
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Jordan, John J. & Wallace, Olifford L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Preheating Means for Vapor-Burners
Patent for "new and useful improvements in generators for vapor-burners" (line 6-7), including instructions and illustration.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Wilson, William W. & Wilson, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Return-Envelop.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in return envelops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Carter, Jessee M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jewel-Setting.
Patent for a new and useful jewel setting, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Wandry, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress.
Patent for a new and useful cotton compress, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Brady, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garden-Plow.
Patent for a garden plow to till soil.
Date:
May 31, 1899
Creator:
Stove, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Lantern-Box.
Design patent for a lantern box with a hexagonal shape and 5 square windows on each side.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Rhodes, Omer J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Link for Clothes-Lines.
Design patent for a link for clothes-lines of a useful and novel design.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Irvine, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.
Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 31, 1896
Creator:
Flatau, Louis, S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.
Patent for chemical fire extinguishers "in which the acid-bottle consists of two concentric cylinders, the inner one of which is open at top and bottom, and which, when the bottle is placed in the cylinder containing the water and soda, potash, or other material, a compressed-air seal will be formed, preventing the acid and water from commingling; but when the bottle is inverted the seal will be broken, and the water and acid coming together will generate the gas." (Lines 18-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis Spencer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.
Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
White, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Horse-Detacher and Brake.
Patent for a simple and durable combined horse-detacher and brake that stops the car after releasing the animal. This patent simplifies a previous patent application (Serial No. 565,581). Both the horse-detacher and brake are activated at the same time by pulling one lever. The brake sits under the car and can hardly be seen.
Date:
March 31, 1896
Creator:
Friedlander, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for an improved cotton elevator, separator, and distributor that is meant to move cotton from a wagon or storage, remove dirt, and deliver it to a gin. The "improved apparatus comprises a pneumatic cotton-conveying tube by which the cotton is lifted or carried to the distributor, a separator for removing the cotton from the air current, and a distributor comprising a trunk for receiving the cotton from the separator extending over the two gin feeders, having openings delivering into the feeders, and an endless chain conveyer moving in said trunk, causing the cotton to travel along therein and drop out therefrom through the delivery openings into the feeders" (lines 16-27).
Date:
October 31, 1893
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A. & Clark, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin made from spring metal that "automatically adapt[s] itself to lines of different thicknesses, and whereby the pin may be used to retain an exceedingly thin article in engagement with the line as effectually as an exceedingly thick article, the pin being capable of holding a bit of lace and likewise a heavy blanket or quilt" (lines 11-18). It is especially designed for use with metal clothes lines.
Date:
October 31, 1893
Creator:
Jones, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs.
Patent for an attachment for pianos or organs that allows for the convenient movement of the instruments that does not damage the instrument or the building.
Date:
October 31, 1893
Creator:
Carter, James William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History