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Artificial Stone.

Description: Patent for artificial stone made of a special combination of cement that hardens and stays hard under water. It also does not conduct heat.
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Power, John H. & Power, Rufus M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Pier under construction]

Description: Photograph of a pier under construction. The wooden beams of the pier can be seen as well as wooden construction platforms. Ships can be seen on the water in the background.
Date: [1890..1920]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pier under construction, 2]

Description: Photograph of a pier under construction. The wooden beams of the pier can be seen as well as wooden construction platforms. Construction material and equipment can be seen in the background.
Date: [1890..1920]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Ginocchio Hotel Under Construction]

Description: Photograph of the Ginocchio Hotel under construction. There are men all around the site and houses in the background. Written below the image are "Ginocchio Hotel - Marshall, Texas under construction all brick fired on the property, 4th from right: Charles A. Ginocchio, C. A. Ginocchio Home in background" and "Hobart Key Jr. Collection."
Date: 1896
Creator: Key, Hobart Jr.
Partner: The Grace Museum

Brick laying crew, West Sixth Street, looking West

Description: Photograph of the railroad crew laying bricks around rail lines on West 6th street looking west. Trolly and telegraph wires cross heavily overhead. A large sign on a building behind the crew reads "Phoenix Saloon / Ice Cold Lager Beer / Wines Liquor." A penciled caption in the lower left reads "Some Texas / sunshine."
Date: [1890..1899]
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Wire-Stretcher and Wheel-Carrier.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher and reel-carrier, meant to make wire needed for fences easier to be ready at the builder's disposal and to stretch the wire to the correct amount of tension.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Pruitt, Andrew L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench and Cutter.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and economic wrench and cutter that is easily used to turn nuts, pipes, or to cut pipes. The wrench does not need to be removed while cutting.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Fletcher, Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for an improved wrench that has two movable jaws and can separate about the length of the handle. The wrench's "head or nut for operating the upper jaw is swiveled and forms a part of the handle" (lines 14-15). The wrench can be converted into a pipe-wrench.
Date: May 9, 1893
Creator: King, Will Henry Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, strong, and simple wire stretcher that can be used quickly to stretch and secure wires. It also connects wires of different heights, and stretches wires to different tensions.
Date: October 17, 1893
Creator: Gillis, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date: October 9, 1894
Creator: Austin, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple mold with few parts and can separate easily. It is designed specifically to make semicircles and rectangular shapes, of concrete or earthenware. The mold also can be held together simply and inexpensively.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Parker, William Sink
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Square.

Description: Patent for a square meant "to provide a simple and cheap steel square embodying also a level, an inclinometer, and mitrometer" (lines 13-15).
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Johns, John P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydraulic Dredging-Machine.

Description: Patent for "an improved device for the excavation of material from the bottoms and sides of channels or other water ways; and has for its object to provide a novel machine of the type indicated, which will afford means to rapidly loosen earth or gravel below the surface of a water course, mix it with water, and subsequently transfer and discharge the débris upon the shore of the stream or within a floating receptacle, as may be desired" (lines 8-18).
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Robbins, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hose or Pipe Coupling.

Description: Patent for a hose or pipe coupling meant to "provide a coupling of great simplicity of construction forming a tight and efficient connection by which the hose can be connected without turning it, without the screwing together of the sections and without a loose washer within one of the couplings which is readily lost and quickly gets out of order" (lines 12-19).
Date: April 16, 1895
Creator: Conley, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool for Building Wire Fences.

Description: Patent for a simple and effective tool used for building wire fences that is "a nail holding and driving device, a measuring attachment, and a wire cutter" (lines 12-14).
Date: May 15, 1894
Creator: Highsmith, Lewis C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Hardening Bitminuous Substances.

Description: Patent for "a process for hardening or partly solidifying to any required degree substances such as liquid or viscid bitumens, tars, or asphaltums, either natural or artificial" (lines 8-12). It hardens bitumens without evaporating oils and leaves them solid when cooled.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Dumble, Edwin Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive nut lock that can be easily used and removed. It lengthens the life of the bolt. The invention is "a bolt with a longitudinal groove or slot in which fits a tongue or lug on a washer which is provided with a notch or notches into which may be forced a portion or portions of a washer made of bendable material, opposite portions of which are designed to be forced into notches in the faces of the nut and thus the nut and both washers are bound or hel… more
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Woods, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut-lock that is meant to be screwed onto a bolt, threaded shaft, axle spindle, or other similar screws. The nut has an improved construction and a lock that consists of a tiny pin that must be pulled out before the nut can be unscrewed.
Date: September 19, 1893
Creator: Stewart, William Mills
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stump-Puller.

Description: Patent for a simple and effective stump puller that pulls stumps entirely from the ground using a large amount of force. The machine uses a series of pulleys, hooks, levers, and cranks.
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Rupe, Salathiel C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive nut lock that securely locks a nut onto a threaded bolt and can be easily unlocked. It also is simply constructed. It consists of a plank-like spring tongue that fits over the bolt and under the nut.
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Taini, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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