Insecticide (open access)

Insecticide

Patent for a type of insecticide for cotton and vegetable plants. Particularly effective for use against the "boll-weevil" of cotton plants.
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Bourlon, Eugene A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame (open access)

Quilting-Frame

Patent for "a construction which will be cheap and simple in construction and efficient in its operation and which may be adjusted to hold the quilt with the proper degree of tension at all times" (lines 12-16).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Glacken, Hugh
System: The Portal to Texas History