Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way. (open access)

Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way.

Patent for a device to automatically take photographs of persons as they walk over a pressure sensor. The inventor suggests the device be used for ticket fare enforcement.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Pocket. (open access)

Watch-Pocket.

Patent for a holder or pocket for a watch that provides a simple, safe, and handy device which is detachable fastened to a garment.
Date: July 24, 1906
Creator: Greenwald, Louis.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine. (open access)

Washing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists "[i]n a washing-machine, the combination of the suds-box with an open-bottomed perforated inner casing, smaller in dimensions than the suds-box, and having supports to raise it above the bottom of the suds-box, and a perforated rubber, the upper wash-board or rubber provided with flanges fitting over the inner casing, the intermediate frame and operating lever" (lines 12-20).
Date: July 29, 1884
Creator: Lee, Joseph Green
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Kelly, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History