Oxygen-Generator (open access)

Oxygen-Generator

Patent for an oxygen generator that refills as it is emptied.
Date: February 7, 1911
Creator: Bradley, Richard Clinton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Bond. (open access)

Rail-Bond.

Patent for a rail bond that allows an electric current to travel through the rails.
Date: March 14, 1911
Creator: Humason, Granville A. & Odell, Edward F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map Showing the Route of the Late Expedition, Commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U. S. Navy, in Attempting to Get Into the Yazoo River by the Way of Steele's Bayou and Deer Creek

Map illustrating the Mississippi River, Yazoo River, creeks, cities, and gun emplacements surrounding a gunboat route through Mississippi. The shaded area is where the gunboats actually traveled. The dotted line is an additional portion of the proposed route. In the upper right corner is a map that showed where the gunboats were to fall back.
Date: 1911
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Topography of a Canal Connecting Walnut Bayou with the Mississippi River.

Map illustrating the topography of a canal that connects Walnut Bayou with the Mississippi River. Islands, woodlands, barges, and dredging machines are noted.
Date: 1911
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Winter Oats for the South (open access)

Winter Oats for the South

"The growing of winter grains is an important part of the diversification of crops in the South. Winter oats is one of the best of the winter grains for general use, but under ordinary methods of culture the crop frequently winterkills or returns unsatisfactory yields. Methods are described in this bulletin by which the loss from winterkilling may be largely obviated and the yields materially increased." -- p. 2
Date: 1911
Creator: Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879-1950
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library