Railway-Crossing. (open access)

Railway-Crossing.

Patent for a railway crossing track, which does not jar the train's wheels as it passes over the crossing.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Adams, Powell O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post-Hole Auger (open access)

Post-Hole Auger

New and useful improvement in Post-Hole Augers. With this construction the auger will its way easily and rapidly into any kind of soil.
Date: November 2, 1880
Creator: Hubby, Mead M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoeing-Rack. (open access)

Horseshoeing-Rack.

Patent for improvements to a frame in which a horse can be held into a convenient position for elevating the hoof to apply a horse shoe. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Huffman, Polly
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Guide and Gage. (open access)

Plow Guide and Gage.

Patent for "gages and guides for plows and cultivators. the object of invention is to provide and adjustable guide and gage adapted to be attached to divided standards of plows and cultivators." (lines 11-16) including illustrations.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Lindsey, John Samiel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engineer's Level-Rod (open access)

Engineer's Level-Rod

Patent for an engineer's level-rod which introduces a peculiar manner of marking the scale upon the face of the rod.
Date: November 30, 1880
Creator: Lynch, Michael L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Tire Machine (open access)

Wheel Tire Machine

Patent for a wheel tire machine. This invention if for taking off and putting on wheel tires. Illustration included.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Meyers, Edna Lu
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machine. (open access)

Well-Drilling Machine.

Patent for “a new and improved well-drilling machine adapted to be driven by horse-power and arranged to permit of actuating the drilling tools for drilling purposes and to allow of conveniently and quickly raising the tools from the well…” (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1902
Creator: Moore, Robert Burns
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clip (open access)

Clip

Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Porter, Louis H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator. (open access)

Water Elevator.

Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with endless chains having links provided with staples, of the buckets having apertured side flanges through which the staples pass, and fastenings passing through the staple in front of the apertured side flanges to hold the buckets in place" (lines 90-96).
Date: November 3, 1885
Creator: Porter, Thomas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Changes in Groundwater Conditions in the Edwards and Trinity Aquifers, 1987-1997, for Portions of Bastrop, Bell, Burnet, Lee, Milam, Travis, and Williamson Counties, Texas (open access)

Changes in Groundwater Conditions in the Edwards and Trinity Aquifers, 1987-1997, for Portions of Bastrop, Bell, Burnet, Lee, Milam, Travis, and Williamson Counties, Texas

The purpose of this report is to update the Texas Water Development Board's Report 326, addressing groundwater problems in the study area related to unreliable supplies during short-term drought demands and long-term economic development.
Date: November 1999
Creator: Ridgeway, Cindy & Petrini, Harald
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweep-Stock. (open access)

Sweep-Stock.

Patent for a sweep stock, which can have multiple types of plows attached to it.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Stone, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power (open access)

Horse-Power

Patent for an alternative horse power design without cogs that has the same level of efficiency with an increased speed of output as well.
Date: November 15, 1892
Creator: Walton, Jacob Gipson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History