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Orange County

Description: Map of Orange County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: July 1886
Creator: Blau, F. G.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Dallas County

Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Dallas County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 1886
Creator: Blau, F. G.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Hardin County

Description: Map of the Piney Woods region covering Hardin County, Texas. The center of Hardin County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: November 1886
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Hill County

Description: Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: February 1886
Creator: Craig, A. M.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Archer County

Description: Map of Archer County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1886
Creator: Beaumont, G. N.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Weight Motor.

Description: Patent for a new and improved weight-motor. This design consists in "the drum having the ratchet-wheel, the gear-wheel having the pawl engaging the ratchet-wheel, the lever extending from the track and adapted to be operated by the wheels of a passing train, the push-rod attached to the said lever and adapted to engage the ratchet-wheel to rotate the latter, the rope attached to the drum and having the weights, the trip-lever to move the push-rod out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel, and th… more
Date: December 7, 1886
Creator: Spencer, Hiram A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists "[i]n a nut-lock, the combination, with a screw-threaded bolt and nut, of a pair of arms pivoted or hinged together, said arms having annular screw-threaded grooves formed therein adapted to register with the threads on the bolt, and means for locking the arms together" (lines 76-81).
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Clark, Fred
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railroad gate. This design "has relation to railroad-gates of the class that is designed to be erected at the lines of fences for the purpose of preventing cattle and stock from passing from one field to another, and further designed to be opened by the wheels of a passing train, and automatically closed after the train has passed; and the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts" (lines 20-28).
Date: June 1, 1886
Creator: Jacobs, William Ramsey & Houston, Samuel Callahan
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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