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Soil map, Texas, Robertson County sheet
Map displays soil types along with lakes, rivers, coal mines, towns, churches, schools, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date:
January 8, 1909
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Robertson County, Texas.
Date:
January 8, 1909
Creator:
Bennett, Hugh H. & Shaw, Charles F.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Forming Apparatus
Patent for an automatic bale forming apparatus that can be set to make a certain size cotton bale and will stop when it reaches that size and send the finished bale out on a conveyer belt and begin the next one.
Date:
January 21, 1908
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopping Machine
Patent for a cotton chopping machine. This invention is used to thin cotton plants with revolving blades that cut and destroy plants. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Tucker, Samuel Houston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind and Water Motor.
Patent for improvements in wind and water motors in which it will not only increase its efficiency and durability but also, be capable of operating in tidal rivers, streams and other currents. This is an improvement of patent no. 588572 of the same inventor. Illustration is included.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Hardaway, Robert Early
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
Kirby, Richard W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an automatic butter churn with illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Fitzhugh, James, S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Washing Machine
Patent for a machine that washes bottles. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Greer, Jesse Wade
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Changeable Gearing.
Patent for changeable gearing by using an axle, bevel-gears, stub-shafts and a crank-axle to construct the changeable gear, so that the “sprocket is locked to rotate with the crank-axle in one direction, while it may rotate freely of the axle in opposite direction, and, furthermore, that the sprocket may be locked to rotate with the axle or may be caused to rotate at a higher-speed than the axle.” (Lines 8-14.) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 8, 1901
Creator:
Brady, Alford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for train car coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Evan S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Implement.
Patent for a compound tool for building and repairing fences, which combines a post hole digger and a wire stretcher.
Date:
January 21, 1908
Creator:
Haynes, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy Top Support
Patent for a buggy top support. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1905
Creator:
Mason, Everett H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can-Opener.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Can-Openers." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1909
Creator:
Davis, James Walter & McBee, Marshall E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Relief Valve for Pneumatic Seed Cotton Distributers.
Patent for a valve that attaches to a flue upon a pneumatic-seed cotton distributor. Includes illustrations.
Date:
January 6, 1903
Creator:
Wade, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Core Lifter For Diamond Drills
Patent for a core lifter for diamond drills. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1905
Creator:
Dupuis, David & Carpenter, D. A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool
Patent for improvements in combination-tools especially adapted for repairing rubber tires.
Date:
January 1, 1901
Creator:
Green, Samuel Milton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive
Patent for an artificial stone beehive. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 19, 1909
Creator:
Ward, Hugh T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c.
Patent for improvements in bungs and air connections for beer-kegs by using a metallic bung which has an opening (a bung-hole), “and provided atone side with a passage, the passage being interiorly threaded at its outer end, an air-tube provided with a valve and having a swiveled member exteriorly threaded and engaging the threaded portion of the passage, and the cork or stopper arranged within the inner portion of the bung-hole and closing the inner end of the passage.” (Lines 116-123, p. 3) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 1, 1901
Creator:
Morawetz, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boat Propeller
Patent for a boat propeller. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Edgar, Samuel Nooley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Bicycle-Rest.
Patent for a new and useful adjustable bicycle-rest, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
Wise, Harry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for a new and useful cloth measuring machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 2, 1900
Creator:
Williams, Ellia Pinkney
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ash Sifter
Patent for receptacle of ashes and sifter to separate unconsumed particles of coal and retain dust.
Date:
January 3, 1900
Creator:
Hart, Sara C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Slat Holding Means
Patent for an invention that "relates to bed-slat-holding means; and the object of the same is to provide simple and effective devices for holding the end of a bed-slat, which is in part carried by the latter and the ledge of the side rail and operating to prevent loose assemblage of the slats with bed-rails and obviate a tendency to easy disengagement and also to maintain the opposite bed-rails in parallel relation and obstruct warping or lateral expansion" (lines 8-21). Illustrations are included.
Date:
January 2, 1902
Creator:
Cooper, Alexander, R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Cleaning Dishes.
Patent for new and useful improvements in apparatus for cleaning dishes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
Wright, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History