Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper

Patent for an improvement to the Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper with detailed illustrations.
Date: February 21, 1888
Creator: Carley, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for an improvement to automatic car couplings with detail description and illustrations.
Date: February 21, 1888
Creator: King, Charles R.; Aten, Aaron P. & Floyd, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Switch. (open access)

Railroad Switch.

Patent for a new and improved railroad switch. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and safe switch adapted for operation by trip-bars on a locomotive engine or car to open or close the switch, and without injury to the rails or actuating mechanism of the switch or danger of derailing the cars" (lines 7-14).
Date: February 21, 1888
Creator: Peetz, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History