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Anti-Oscillating Attachment for Street-Cars.

Description: Patent for an improved anti-oscillating attachment for street-cars. It has a car truck, equalizing pivoting bars secured between the truck ends, cushions on either side of the bars, adjustable bolts that hold the bars in place, and springs between the bolts.
Date: July 10, 1894
Creator: Chollar, Benjamin F.
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[Hurley Office Building in Fort Worth, Texas]

Description: Copy photo of the Hurley Office building in Fort Worth, Texas. There is a carriage visible on the left side of the screen and a trolley further down the street. Written on the bottom of the photo is "[sic] Hurley Office Bldg. Ft. Worth. ~" Below the image is written "Scenes along the T&P 1895-1896."
Date: 1895/1896
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[Travis Street in Sherman, Texas]

Description: Copy photo of the view of Travis Street from T&P Rail Lines in Sherman, Texas. There are people on the side of the street and two men riding horses in the street. There is a trolley in the street as well. Written on the bottom of the photo is "[sic] Res. E Business Part of Travis St. Sherman." Below the image are written "Scenes along the T&P 1895-1896" and "T&P."
Date: 1895/1896
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Station-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a station-indicator for trolley cars meant to "produce an automatic apparatus of this kind which is worked by the movement of the car and in which a map is employed, which is moved in such a way that the various points at which the car stops will always be correctly indicated" (lines 13-18).
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Baker, Artemas
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Speed-Recorder.

Description: Patent for an improvement in speed-recorders or device meant especially for street-cars, meant to protect the streets from reckless driving. The machine punches tape, recording the time the trolly takes to travel each block and how long the trolly takes at each stop.
Date: May 5, 1896
Creator: Spence, James, Jr.
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Speed-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a speed-indicator to be used on trolly-cars and other vehicles that informs anyone looking behind the trolly-car if that car is speeding or not. An alarm goes off when the car goes above a predetermined speed, which is activated by a governor that is controlled from the wheels. A device keeps the signal normal.
Date: July 7, 1896
Creator: Bateman, Talbot Owens
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Trolley Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a trolley mechanism that is a pivoting "yoke adapted to normally follow being swerved out of line when the car is going around curve of the trolley wire; to prevent catching on cross-wires in case the trolley wheel should leave the line-wire; and to adjust the amount of pivotal action of said yoke with regard to the trolley pole" (lines 13-20).
Date: November 21, 1893
Creator: Fuller, James T.
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Trolley-Catcher.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient trolley pole that can be "dropped to a position of safety when the trolley wheel leaves the wire, whereby the pole is prevented from coming in contact with the supports of the trolley wire, the feeders, &c." (lines 10-14). The pole is easily re-engaged.
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Cobb, Woodson D.
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Motor for Street-Cars.

Description: Patent for an improved motor design for street-cars in which each car has its own motor. The motor is steam powered.
Date: March 12, 1895
Creator: Slaughter, Joel C.
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Trolley-Finder.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and easily constructed trolley guide that can be easily attached to an above or below ground trolley that is already in use.
Date: June 25, 1895
Creator: Taylor, James P.
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Conduit Electric Railway.

Description: Patent for a surface trolley for electric railways that operates "upon the surface of the pavement or ground between the tracks of the road, for connecting the car with the motor power, in place of the trolley and over head wires now suspended upon the unsightly poles in the center or at the sides of the street, which are found to be very objectionable on account of their obstructing the passageway in the streets and upon the side walks, and the wires preventing the free movement of fire compan… more
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: de Voe, William R.
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Conduit Electric Railway.

Description: Patent for an underground conduit electric railway meant to propel cars. The conduit can be drained and kept dry, and a trolley attachment protects the conduit from dirt and water as well.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: de Voe, William R.
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Car-Shading Adjuster.

Description: Patent for a car-shade adjuster in passenger-coaches of street-cars that allows shades to "be raised or lowered at will and held firmly in any desired position" (lines 18-19). It is set in tracks in the window frame, held in place by springs, and bearings to keep friction between the shade-roller and track.
Date: July 28, 1896
Creator: Smith, Earl W.
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Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a sprin… more
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Baade, John
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