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Falls County

Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Falls County, Texas. Falls are marked on the Brazos River, as shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: September 2, 1855
Creator: Martin, Joseph
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hand-Machines for Gathering Cotton in the Field" (lines 3-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 16, 1856
Creator: Shields, B. G.
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Falls County

Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Falls County, Texas. Falls are marked on the Brazos River, as shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: August 15, 1868
Creator: Martin, Joseph
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Improvement in Brick-Machines.

Description: Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: July 16, 1872
Creator: Houghton, Gideon H.
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Improvement in Portable Fences.

Description: Patent for "a simple, cheap, and portable fence...which can be readily folded up for transportation from place to place." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Taylor, Byron L.
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Falls County

Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Falls County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 6, 1874
Creator: Wise, Louis C.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Falls County

Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Falls County, Texas. Falls are marked on the Brazos River, as shown on map. The road to Parker's Fort is also shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: December 1874
Creator: Schenck, F.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for a variety of cotton-bale ties that has has a series of notches and pins that lock together when the ends are brought together.
Date: December 30, 1879
Creator: Singer, Edgar C.
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Plow.

Description: Patent for improvement of plows; and it consists of a combination of two plows, which are attached to separate beams of their own, and which run upon opposite side of the growing plants for the purpose of cutting away weeds and dirt from around them, with two culitivators or shovels, which run immediately in the rear of said plows, and which clutivators are attached to beams of their own and serve to throw the dirt back toward the plants, as will be more fully described hereinafter.
Date: April 4, 1881
Creator: Carter, Charles Henry
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Governor for Cotton Gins and Cotton Gin Feeders.

Description: Patent for a new and improved governor for cotton gins. This design "consists, first, in the combination of an oscillating or movable roll-breast with a regulating attachment, whereby the size of the roll or the pressure of the cotton in the roll-box is made to regulate the feed to the gin to any desired degree; second, in forming a series of slots through the outer side of the roll-breast, so that the cotton seed may be discharged through the outer side of the breast, as well as in addition to… more
Date: May 10, 1881
Creator: Forbes, Lycurgus D.
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Governor for Cotton Gins.

Description: Patent for a new and improved governor for cotton gins. This design utilizes a moveable suspended roll-breast and a moveable rocking frame to regulate the amount of cotton fed into the roll-box. This design simplifies and cheapens gin production, and it makes the parts of the gin more adaptable to other gins of different sizes.
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Forbes, Lycurgus D.
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Post Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved post auger. This design "has relation to that class of post-augers which consist of a number of concavo-convex cutting blades secured upon the lower end of a shaft having a cross-handle at its upper end, and provided with means for expanding the said blades for the purpose of boring holes of different sizes; and it consists in the detailed construction and combination of parts of the same" (lines 19-27).
Date: August 14, 1883
Creator: Miles, John E.
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Post Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved post auger. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a post-auger, of the socketed block, the screw-threaded rod extending from the center of the lower end of the block, the expander-disk fitting upon said threaded rod, and having the slotted wings or extensions, the two nuts for adjusting the position of the expander-disk upon the threaded-rod . . . whereby the lower pointed ends of the blades may be arranged to cross one another . . . the shaft [and] the cr… more
Date: February 12, 1884
Creator: Miles, John E.
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Marlin 1885 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marlin in Falls County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Marlin 1885 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Marlin in Falls County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Wash Boiler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved laundry boiler. This design consists in "a partition at its lower end slightly above the bottom formed with a screw-threaded neck at its center, a perforated tube fitting with its lower end upon the neck and having its upper end closed, and a number of perforated triangular tubes upon the side of the boiler provided with stoppers at their upper ends and extending from the partition in the lower end of the boiler, and a rack consisting of rings connected at their up… more
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Fountain, Henry Stephen
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