Provision Safe. (open access)

Provision Safe.

Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "has for its objects, among others, to provide a simple, cheap, and economical safe, in which provisions may be kept cool during the hot season and from freezing during the winter weather. I provide a suitable post or support, from which extend brackets, shelves, or hooks or other provisions for the support of the various articles to be contained therein. [T]he whole [is covered] with a cloth and [has] a water tank or receptacle at the upper end and . . . ha[s] a stream of water flow[ing] or trickl[ing] down upon the cloth to saturate the same" (lines 14-25).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Schrib, Juni
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator. (open access)

Refrigerator.

Patent for a refrigerator with shelves and two layers of cooling liquids inside the walls.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Henderson, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Clipper. (open access)

Hair-Clipper.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements" (line 6) in the Hair Clipper, concerning the introduction of more efficient "double-acting clippers" (line 12), including illustrations.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Jones, Sidney P. & Wallace, David P.
System: The Portal to Texas History