Rock Springs 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: 1903
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fort McKavett 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: 1904
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for a water pipe valve. Illustrations included.
Date: July 6, 1909
Creator: Chalk, Russell H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a valve, which attaches easily to all sorts of liquid-filled reservoirs and is durable.
Date: September 29, 1908
Creator: Craddock, Lee Larrence & McCleary, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for a valve. This design is for use with tanks. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Fambrough, Andrew Clarence & Swearingen, Alonzo J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Valve Mechanism. (open access)

Pump-Valve Mechanism.

Patent for a pump valve mechanism for use in deep wells, which can be easily removed for cleaning and repair,
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Sheen, Davis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Cutting Register. (open access)

Hair-Cutting Register.

Patent for a counting device for use by barber shops activated by taking on and off the head rest of a barbers chair, so that the shop owner knows how many hair cuts were given in each chair that day and can cross check the money taken in each day against the numbers of haircuts given.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Kelley, Hugh, C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float Valve (open access)

Float Valve

Patent for improvements on float valves that will "resupply the tank with water when it is withdrawn to a certain lower level and also operate to cut off the inflow when the water will have reached a predetermined height in the trough" (lines 14-18).
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Mayfield, Jess Lewis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shampoo-Registering Device. (open access)

Shampoo-Registering Device.

Patent for a shelf for shampoos in barber shops that counts how many times shampoos are taken off and put back on the shelf for the purpose of counting customers.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Kelley, Hugh, C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shave-Registering Device. (open access)

Shave-Registering Device.

Patent for a shave registering device for use in barber shops, which is activated by the movement of the chair up and down.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Kelley, Hugh C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History