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Fire-Escape.

Description: Patent for a new and useful fire escape, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Buck, Sterling P. & Meaker, Charles L.
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Ice-Machine

Description: Patent for an icebox that can be combined with a refrigerator. The icebox will spray the ammonia compressor coil with water, as well as inducing a forced circulation of water in the icebox's freezing tank.
Date: May 22, 1920
Creator: Grant, Willburn C.
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Seed-Planter.

Description: Patent for "a construction of seed-planter providing a positive and efficient means for planting any desired number of rows at one time, while at the same time having means for opening the furrow, dropping the seed, and covering up the furrow in one operation." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Mannewitz, Maximilian
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Railway Telephone and Signal Sign

Description: Patent for Railway Telephone and Signal System (with illustrations).
Date: September 30, 1915
Creator: Neel, George E.
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Roof Screw.

Description: Patent for a new and improved roof screw. This design consists, "[a]s a new article of manufacture, [in] a screw consisting of a threaded shank having an integral head, an enlarged collar or flange on said shank below the head thereon, and an elastic cushion on the shank immediately below the enlarged collar or flange, for the purpose described" (lines 60-66).
Date: September 23, 1890
Creator: Corley, Daniel B.
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Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for washing machines that are "capable of thoroughly and rapidly washing clothes and other fabrics without wearing, tearing, or otherwise injuring them and at the expenditure of a minimum amount of labor." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Raley, Sylvester B. & Raley, Timothy M.
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Wire-Handling Tool.

Description: Patent for a wire handling tool for stretching wire netting that adjusts to different size wire widths.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Totten, Milo
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Bottle Stopper

Description: Patent for a bottle stopper. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1904
Creator: Hogan, Thomas & Grady, Patrick H.
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Churn

Description: Patent for a new and improved churn and cooler which allows for easier removal of the cooling liquid and includes illustrations and description.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Sibley, William P.
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Indicator

Description: Patent for a numbering indicator used to mark the status of stored batteries.
Date: May 29, 1919
Creator: Carter, James William, Jr.
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Combined Closer And Latch For Gates, &c

Description: Patent for combined closer and latch for gates. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: McKinney, Pleasant M.
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Combined Hook and Hammer.

Description: Patent for a combined hook and hammer meant to "combine in its structure the ordinary hook for engaging with the article to be moved, and a handle adapted, when desired, to be used as a hammer, thus dispensing with the necessity for a separate implement of this character, and, second, to combine with the said hook and handle improved means for preventing the accidental contact of the hand of the operator with the article to be handled" (lines 17-26).
Date: July 2, 1895
Creator: Tillett, Henry Augustus; Tarpley, Thomas Dee & Moore, Robert Jones
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Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for improvement on clothing pin by using a single wire.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Neal, William C.
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Bale-Band Buckle

Description: Patent for buckles used to hold bands of bales. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Patterson, James S. & Smith, Dallas E.
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Combined Lister Plow and Planter.

Description: Patent for a combined Lister plow and planter that both breaks the ground and plants seed. Appears to be a type of early tractor.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
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Apparatus for Killing Rodents

Description: Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Palmer, Austin D.
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