Gainesville 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: 1914
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Operating Mechanism (open access)

Churn Operating Mechanism

Patent for a churn operating mechanism. This invention provides a dasher operating mechanism for easy and convenient cleaning. Illustration included.
Date: December 31, 1912
Creator: Cunningham, Richard A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas (open access)

Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas

Patent for an apparatus for generating Acetylene Gas which feeds water directly into the carbide from a main reservoir.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Hodges, Samuel F. & Lee, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake Coupling (open access)

Air-Brake Coupling

Patent for an air brake coupling for use on trains that opens the air valves when the coupling is attached.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Winton, Robert A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Exhibitor and Phonographic Annunciator (open access)

Advertising Exhibitor and Phonographic Annunciator

Patent for an advertising exhibitor and phonographic annunciator that shows changing advertisements and has a recording reading them out.
Date: July 25, 1911
Creator: Stafford, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker's Sack (open access)

Cotton-Picker's Sack

Patent for a sack for cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date: July 11, 1911
Creator: Kendall, Ernest L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can-Opener. (open access)

Can-Opener.

Patent for a can opener, which has a movable blade to allow for easy cleaning.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: Allen, Jasper McDonnel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vapor and Steam Burner (open access)

Vapor and Steam Burner

Patent for a vapor and steam burner. Illustrations included.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: Stafford, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine (open access)

Steam-Engine

Patent for an improved steam engine for train engines.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Sanders, William Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter (open access)

Stalk-Cutter

Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date: June 21, 1910
Creator: Sanders, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch. (open access)

Electric Switch.

Patent for switches or connectors that connect sections of wires used for telephones or telegraphs
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Du Val, James Erl & Lee, Ezra A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe-Holder. (open access)

Stovepipe-Holder.

Patent for a stovepipe holder, which is attached to stovepipes going through walls or ceilings to protect the structure from fire.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Walker, John S. B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poultry Feeding and Watering Device (open access)

Poultry Feeding and Watering Device

Patent for "new and useful poultry feeding and watering device" (lines 5-7), including illustration and instructions.
Date: May 6, 1911
Creator: Wilson, W. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner (open access)

Oil Burner

Patent for an oil burner. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Kendall, Ernest L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Dasher Churn. (open access)

Double-Dasher Churn.

Patent for a double dasher churn with adjustable speed dashers.
Date: August 30, 1910
Creator: Melton, Ode E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment designed to aid in the plowing of soil. Illustrations included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Parmer, George W. & Miller, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement (open access)

Agricultural Implement

Patent for an agricultural implement. Illustrations included.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Oldham, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Harvester. (open access)

Cotton-Boll Harvester.

Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Attachment. (open access)

Pumping Attachment.

Patent is for "new and useful Improvements in Pumping Attachments" (lines 5&6) with illustration and instructions on how it works.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: York, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plate-Lifter (open access)

Plate-Lifter

Patent for an "...improved lifter whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient..." (lines 19-23).
Date: February 28, 1917
Creator: Mitchell, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper for "oscillating said [chopping] hoe as the implement is drawn through the field" (lines 11-13).
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: Sims, James Gordon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaking Machine. (open access)

Boll Breaking Machine.

Patent for new and useful improvements in Boll-Breaking machines.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Bradford, McDuffee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke (open access)

Animal-Poke

Patent for an animal poke that will go over the head of a horse, cow, or related animal, preventing it from getting under, over, or through fences, slacking bent wires, or prevent it from otherwise damaging or mutilating fences of all kinds.
Date: November 28, 1916
Creator: Williams, Osker
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a wire stretcher with means to easily adjust a slidable rack bar, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Harper, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History