Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1906
Creator: Payne, Lewis.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues (open access)

Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues

Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Caffey, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boat-Propeller. (open access)

Boat-Propeller.

Patent for a boat propeller, which is inexpensive and adaptable to small boats. The propeller can go forwards or backwards and use multiple oars.
Date: February 5, 1901
Creator: Caffey, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Bastrop County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of Bastrop County, Texas

Text describing climate, agriculture, and soils of Bastrop County, Texas.
Date: August 12, 1908
Creator: Winston, R. A. (Robert Alonzo); Meeker, F. N.; Eckman, O. L.; Lyman, W. S.; Schroeder, Frank C.; Rice, Thomas D. (Thomas Donnelly) et al.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, Bastrop County sheet

Map displays soil types along with topography, creeks, rivers, springs, swamps, farms, towns, stores, parks, roads, and railroads. Legend includes soil profiles.
Date: August 12, 1908
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that provides an apparatus in which the parts may be readily detached for convenience in making repairs.
Date: June 5, 1908
Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bastrop Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1904
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Plow. (open access)

Listing-Plow.

Patent for a listing plow that can be used in any type of soil.
Date: September 24, 1907
Creator: Persson, Gottfrid
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Steam Engine (open access)

Improvements in Steam Engine

Patent for improvements in steam-engines. The goal of this invention to provide a simple construction that can be equally adapted for locomotives and high speed engines.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Dickson, Henry L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Device (open access)

Measuring Device

Patent for a measuring device that measures fabric. Illustration included.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Teykl, John F. & Wagener, Kenny
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press for Forming Hollow Articles (open access)

Press for Forming Hollow Articles

Patent for a press for forming hollow objects such as furnace pots. Illustrations included.
Date: July 13, 1909
Creator: Williams, Robert Lucius
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller (open access)

Stump-Puller

Patent for stump puller.
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Garrett, Irvin H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for a hay bailing machine. "The invention relates to bailing-presses, and more particularly to that class adapted for bailing hay, straw, &c.; and it has for one object to provide a simple and efficient construction in which a continuous rotation of the bailing-lever will act in conjunction with a retractile spring to reciprocate the plunger" (lines 7-13). "A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient construction of detent for holding the gate after the hay or other material has been compressed and while the piston is retracted" (lines 14-18). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Garrett, Irvin H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Seat (open access)

Spring Seat

Patent for a spring seat. Illustration included.
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Peeple, Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seat Lock For Wagons (open access)

Seat Lock For Wagons

Patent for a seat lock for wagons. Illustration included.
Date: August 16, 1904
Creator: Moore, Leon P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poison Distributor for Growing Plants (open access)

Poison Distributor for Growing Plants

Patent for a device that can be easily attached to a cultivator and delivers poison to both the roots and the top of a plant, protecting the plant from pests and disease, with illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Zedlitz, Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for a large hopper-based device which generates acetylene gas.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Clopton, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History