Aeroplane. (open access)

Aeroplane.

Patent for a new and useful airplane that provides the ability of the aircraft to take off from the ground at an abrupt angle. The aircraft has a supplemental propeller and jointed body to direct the machine upward in an abrupt ascent, making it especially useful in wooded areas or where obstructions prevent normal take-off.
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: Cartwright, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Saba 2-b Quadrangle

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 1:48000
Date: 1925
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownwood 3-b Quadrangle

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 1:48000
Date: 1925
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Zephyr Quadrangle

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 1:62500
Date: 1928
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownwood 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: 1920
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady 1-b Quadrangle

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 1:48000
Date: 1925
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mercury Quadrangle

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 1:62500
Date: 1928
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownwood Reservoir Site Quadrangle

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 1:48000
Date: 1924
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coleman 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: 1920
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownwood 3-d Quadrangle

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 1:48000
Date: 1925
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coleman 1-c and 1-d Quadrangle

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 1:48000
Date: 1924
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady 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: 1920
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grosvenor Quadrangle

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 1:62500
Date: 1927
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Saba 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: 1925
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coleman 1-a Quadrangle

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 1:48000
Date: 1924
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady 1-a Quadrangle

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 1:48000
Date: 1925
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Spring. (open access)

Automobile-Spring.

Patent for improvements in automobile-springs, specifically a means of suspending the front and rear springs of an automobile and cushioning and absorbing shocks.
Date: July 5, 1921
Creator: Jones, George Chester & Jones, George C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for improved combined cotton choppers and cultivators where the operation of the chopper blades can be instantly controlled from the seat. This is combined with the cultivator shovels carried on the machine to the rear of the revolving chopper blades that are used to cultivate the soil.
Date: February 21, 1922
Creator: Whitaker, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Oven. (open access)

Tire-Oven.

Patent for a device that heats wagon and buggy wheel tires that will warm them evenly.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Howlett, Isaac C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Puller. (open access)

Pipe-Puller.

Patent for a device that is specially designed for pulling or lifting a drill stem that is "stuck" in a bore well.
Date: May 18, 1920
Creator: Simmons, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Fastener for Cylindrical Screens. (open access)

Detachable Fastener for Cylindrical Screens.

Patent for a more efficient and effective seeding device that can disconnect, reconnect, and fasten the ends of a strip of material to form a cylinder.
Date: July 20, 1920
Creator: Leach, William Logan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History