Improvement in Apparatus for Wiring Picket-Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Wiring Picket-Fences.

Patent for a new improvement in apparatus for wiring picket-fences to hold the wires tight, including illustration.
Date: February 24, 1874
Creator: Parks, James Madison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for a new and improved seed-planter. Illustration included.
Date: February 20, 1877
Creator: Miller, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cradle, Swing, and Clothes-Drier. (open access)

Combined Cradle, Swing, and Clothes-Drier.

Patent for "a cradle which may be easily and quickly converted into a child's swing or into a clothes rack or drier." (Lines 10-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: McMordie, William Emmett
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wire-Fence Tool. (open access)

Combination Wire-Fence Tool.

Patent for a tool that combines pincers, a hammer head, jaws, etc., to be used for fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1897
Creator: Rubarth, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shot Case. (open access)

Shot Case.

Patent for a new and improved shot case. This design "is to draw given quantities of shot from the case without the necessity of weighing each draft. To this end the invention consists in a case, means for hanging the same, and a charger" (lines 12-16).
Date: February 12, 1884
Creator: Ellis, Quincy Adams
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mother Neff State Park Redevelopment Plan (open access)

Mother Neff State Park Redevelopment Plan

This document provides information on the master plan that is meant to characterize public use zones and to program the facilities and infrastructure to support public use and operation at Mother Neff State Park.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History