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Trombone.
Patent, including illustration, for "a musical instrument slide and is more particularly designated as a bearing or stocking for a trombone or other similar instruments in which it is desirable to provide a smooth bearing for the slidable part of the instrument" (page 1, lines 9-13).
Date:
February 17, 1920
Creator:
Ackley, William D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined or Covertible Tool.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a screw-driver, its blade having a hole and a lug, and its handle having in its end a socket with a slotted reversible tool, pointed at one end and formed for a screw-driver at the other end adjustably held against one side of the screw-driver by means of a screw and nut and the lug, and adapted to fit in the socket when out of use" (lines 63-71).
Date:
November 20, 1888
Creator:
Barber, Edwin L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soldering-Tool.
Patent for an improved soldering-tool by having a reservoir for gasoline or other light hydrocarbon, a burner-tube, and a valve for regulating the combustion of the gasoline and heating the tool continuously and uniformly, without a furnace. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Barber, Edwin L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Cooler.
Patent for an improvement in water-coolers wherein the vessel for holding the water is surrounded with fibrous material that is kept saturated with water, the evaporation of which will absorb the heat from the water contained in the vessel in a manner well known to science.
Date:
October 20, 1880
Creator:
Barber, Edwin Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Engine-Starter.
Patent for "new and useful Automatic Engine-Starter, of which the following is a specification. The present invention appertains to engine starters, and aims to provide a novel and improved automatic spring-actuated starter for internal combustion engines" (lines 5-11).
Date:
November 30, 1915
Creator:
Beck, John Wesley & Gaines, Nolan T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for an improvement on wire-fence tools. "To provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive tool of great strength and durability designed for operating on fence-wires and adapted for mending the same and for taking up the slack of a fence-wire and capable in stretching the ends past each other before the same are twisted together, whereby the ends of the wire may be more effectively connected." (Lines 10-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Berry, James Osborn
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region B
Water plan for Region B describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation plans, drought response plans, the process of creating the plan.
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Biggs & Mathews, Inc.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Earth and Stone Fences.
Patent for a new and improved mold for earth and stone fences. This design "consist[s] of the inclined adjustable sides, having inclined standards, removable boards, and boards, tables, and locking-bolts . . . [and] the sides having lower boards or metallic pieces, upper removable boards or metallic pieces, and inclined standards of the tables, locking-bolts, handles, and stakes" (lines 21-30).
Date:
July 26, 1881
Creator:
Budd, Lewis R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Holder.
Patent for a door holder, which is operated by turning the door knob and holds the door open at predetermined positions.
Date:
March 3, 1908
Creator:
Clark, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Bagging.
Patent for a cutting machine for cloth bags for cotton presses, which has cloth continuously being fed into it and cuts it at predetermined lengths which can be adjusted as needed.
Date:
February 25, 1908
Creator:
Clark, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shears for Cutting Hot Metal.
Patent for "a device which is more especially intended for shearing hot metal, although it may be used for cutting cold material," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 30, 1891
Creator:
Cleveland, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a quilting frame designed to be used with a sewing machine and "which may be easily set up and be supported from the floor, and not in any manner mar or injure the walls or ceilings." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1895
Creator:
Click, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for a new adjustable ironing-table that folds for storage, including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Click, John Jones
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Spring-Motor.
Patent for a spring-motor for bicycles, street and railway cars, and other vehicles which is meant "to accumulate and store surplus power which is usually lost in stopping vehicles and in holding back the same when descending steep grades, the purpose being to utilize such stored power for the purpose of propelling the vehicle up an incline or at whatever point additional power may be found desirable." (Lines 17-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Click, John Jones
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for an attachment that can be connected to a sewing machine to facilitate quilting.
Date:
March 24, 1914
Creator:
Click, Washington B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type.
Patent for a new and improved type. This design "relates to printing, and more especially to the type used therein; and the object of the same is to provide a substitute for the large wood type now extensively used on poster and other large work. To this end the invention consists in a type-face and a type-base each of metal" (lines 7-13).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Coleman, Allison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Honey-Boxes for Bee-Hives
Patent for the new and improved construction of bee-hives. Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1879
Creator:
Connolly, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an addition "to provide a plow of this character that shall perform both operations at one and the same time, one that is exceedingly cheap and simple, one that will always move in a straight line and protect the plants being barred, and one that requires very little more power than an ordinary plow" (lines 15-18).
Date:
November 1, 1892
Creator:
Couch, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in windmills, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 6, 1898
Creator:
Douglass, William S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator and Insect Destroyer
Patent for a fumigator and insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date:
April 11, 1905
Creator:
Frazer, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastener for Fish-Plates for Rails.
Patent for improvements in fasteners for fish-plates for rails by using a combination of fish-plates, washers placed in between the plates and rail, a slotted bolt, a wedge-shaped key with thin bendable portion and a washer on the bolt between the key and fish-plate to “firmly hold the plates in position but will serve to deaden the noise caused by the fractional contact of the parts,” (lines 18-20) includes illustration.
Date:
March 31, 1891
Creator:
Gary, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antelope Creek Northeast 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 1:24000
Date:
1982
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antelope 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 1:24,000
Date:
1981
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antelope Quadrangle
Satellite image 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 1:24,000
Date:
2010
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History