Cotton Picker's Wagon. (open access)

Cotton Picker's Wagon.

Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Collins, Charles P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench that can also be used as a pipe. Illustrations included.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Green, Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History