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Blow-Out Guard

Description: Patent for a blow-out guard for double tube tires. It is meant to a barrier "interposed between the inner and outer tubes of a pneumatic tire, to reinforce an apertured or weakened place...preventing the inner tube from 'blowing out' at such a point." (Line 11-16)
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Holloman, Alfred A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[1913 Buick]

Description: Photograph (copy) of a 1913 Buick with the top in place. Tin roofed barn with open doors in background. Another wooden building on right of photo (with open door.)
Date: 1914
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Four unidentified men in a 1913 Buick]

Description: Photograph (copy) of four unidentified men in a 1913 Buick. Driver is wearing a white shirt, dark tie and hat. The other men are wearing dark suits and white shirts. Man in back seat to right has his hat on his knee. Wooden building in background. Scanned image is of the copy.
Date: 1914
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[A View of Mesquite Street, Mineral Wells]

Description: An early scene of Mesquite Street (now [2008] NE 1st Avenue) looking North toward old U.S. Post Office from the corner of East Hubbard Street, after a rain? Electrical lines are present as are cars and trucks typical of the post-1914 era, when the streets of Mineral Wells were paved. The cornerstone for the Post Office was laid in May, 1912. The building on the near right housed Campbell's Bargain store. It occupied the site of the current Baker Hotel (Opened in 1929.)
Date: 1914?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Parmer and LIghthouser in Auto]

Description: Photograph of seven people, including Parmer and Lighthouser, in an automobile with plains, telephone poles, and a farmhouse in the background. Five of the passengers wearing dark coats and hats are sitting in the car, a girl wearing a dress is sitting above the back tire, and a young woman wearing a bonnet is seated on the hood of the car. Three of the passengers in the car are holding rifles and the driver has a cigarette in his mouth.
Date: 1914
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Men Sitting in Car]

Description: Photograph of five men sitting in a 1914 Model Hudson decorated for a parade. They are identified as Mayor Frank Hewson in the driver's seat, J. A. Snoddy in the left front seat, and Felix Weil, E. V. Folsom, T. C. Ford in the rear seat. A house is visible in the background.
Date: 1914~
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Austin Ave During WW I]

Description: Photograph of Austin Avenue in Waco, Texas. Handwritten text on back identifies this photograph as taken during WW I. The Goldstein-Migel Co. building is on the left, the Amicable Life Insurance Company (A.L.I.C.O.) building in the center, and streetcars are visible lining the street.
Date: 1914~/1918~
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Lubricator

Description: Patent for "lubricators adapted to be used in journal boxes of card, in shaft bearings, and at any other point...to provide a lubricator which will adjust itself automatically to the member to be lubricated and which includes wiping means for removing surplus" (lines 7-10 & 15-18).
Date: December 15, 1914
Creator: Maness, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Jack.

Description: Patent for a vehicle-jack that can raise and lower all of the supporting legs using a single lever, as well as lengthen and shorten the jack at will to adapt it to vehicles of different sizes.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Douglass, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement to Clutch

Description: Patent for improvements in clutches used in traction vehicles that will allow the vehicle to go forward or in reverse. Instructions and illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Holt, Levi J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Internal-Combustion Engine

Description: Patent for an internal-combustion engine with a novel form of rotary valve and other meaningful improvements to a combustion engine.
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: Clough, George Golden
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Guiding Mechanism

Description: Patent for "an improved and simplified construction" for vehicle steering axles (line 15), including illustrations.
Date: February 17, 1914
Creator: Brandt, Friedrich Wilhelm
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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