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- Report of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas: 1875
- Annual report of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts documenting financial records including disbursements and transactions made by the office during fiscal year 1876.
- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65): Part 1, Volume 2. Surgical History
- Volume of records for the U.S. Civil War documenting statistics related to surgical patients with information about various kinds of injuries and treatments (including illustrations of many injuries before and after treatment).
- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65): Part 1, Volume 1. Medical History
- Documentation related to medical records from the U.S. Civil War. From introduction: "[This volume] consists of a series of statistical tables presenting a summary view of the facts embodied in the monthly reports made to the Surgeon General with regard to the Sickness of the Army, the Deaths, and the Discharges from service on surgeon's certificate of disability. These tables have been arranged in two groups; Part I referring to White Troops, Part II to Colored Troops. Each of these parts again, is subdivided into two sections; the first referring to Sickness and mortality, the second to Discharges on surgeon's certificate of disability" (p. xiii).
- Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton and corn planter design with an axle that has agitators, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Condensers.
- Patent to improve the compressing-roller design in a cotton gin, to keep the mechanisms from clogging. This is an addition to a previous patent by the same inventor that improved methods of cleaning the cotton. It includes an explanation with references, and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for a new and improved Shovel-Cultivator design with adjustable parts and various shapes of shovels, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Addressing-Machines.
- Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Wood Pavements.
- Patent for a new and improved construction of Bois D'Arc Pavement, which uses two layers of planks that cross at right angle as a base, sand to hold bois d'arc blocks in place and fill gaps in between, and coal-tar covering planks to prevent sand from shifting. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Grub-Plow and Stalk-Cutter.
- Patent for a device to remove grubs from soil, which consists of an adjustable gage-wheel and a cutter to remove grubs and to cut roots. The cutter can be also used to cut cotton-stalks. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Door-Securers.
- Patent for a new and improved safety-locks for doors which consists of only three parts: a screw with sharp points, a nut, and a guard pivoted to the nut. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Devices for Driving Light Machinery from an Irregular Power.
- Patent for light machinery that runs on irregular power. Device stores power produced by wind-wheel.
- Jail Cells.
- Patent for new and improved jail cells. This design calls for cell walls constructed of vertical sections secured by through-bolts, tubular bars for the concealment of the through-bolts, wooden corner-posts and sill and head timbers, and outer and main walls lined with sheet-iron (with narrow windows lined with chilled cast-iron) (paras. 15-19).
- Improvement in Well-Augers.
- Patent for an improved well-auger, includes instruction and illustration.
- Improvement in Water-Drawers.
- Patent for an improved water drawer, includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement In Water-Elevators.
- Patent for improvements to water-elevators using water-vessels which are suspended from a chain or cord, also known as endless carriers.
- Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators
- Patent for an improvement in Chain-Wheels consisting "in the construction and arrangement of a device for drawing water from wells, which shall be cheap, convenient, and free from danger, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth."
- Improvement inTables.
- Patent for improvement in tables which "consists in the arrangement and combination of parts that will be more fully described hereinafter, whereby the table can be taken apart, packed in a small compass for transportation, and then put together again by an inexperienced hand” (lines 11-17).
- Improvement in Water-Tanks.
- Patent for an improved water-tank built with lumbers that are thoroughly dried and covered with asphaltum as waterproof agent. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Wrenches.
- Patent for furnishing "an adjustable wrench for holding and turning bolts, pipes, taps, &c." (lines 7-9). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvements In Buckles.
- Patent for a new kind of buckle along with specifications for construction and illustrations of the buckle.
- Improvements in Compounds for Destroying Trees, Roots, &c.
- Patent for a new and useful improvements to compouds used in the destroying of trees. Lists ingredients and dosages.
- Improvement in Windmills.
- Patent for an improved windmill, including illustrations, consisting of an arrangement of "three stationary sails between arms on central shaft, so as to obtain double or increased power from the air passing through the wheel." (lines 7-10)
- Improvements in Escapements for Time-Pieces
- Patent for inprovements in escapements for time-pieces involving levers and duplex escapements as a way of improving force and regularity in time-pieces. Patent gives instructions and provides illustrations.
- Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
- Patent for "new and Improved Vapor-Burner." (lines 3-4)
- Improvement In Sulky-Plows.
- This pantent was created for the construction and preperation of a sulky plow cultivator. The invention was created for new and mechanical improvements.
- Improvement in the Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement
- Patent for the improvement in the manufacture of hydraulic cement with specifications for the manufacturing process and a description of usage.
- Improvement in Twine-Holders
- Patent for improvement in twine-holders to help hold twine, cloth and wrapping to counters for ease of cutting, with illustration.
- Improvement in Tube-Fastenings for Boilers.
- Patent for improvement of tube-fastenings for boilers which will secure flues in steam-boilers, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Spurs.
- Patent for improvements in spurs that permanently attaches the spur to the boot, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Steam-Engines.
- Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement In Suspender-Buttons
- Patent for an improved suspender button with a description and illustrations attached.
- Improvement in Street-Cars
- Patent for an improvement to Street Cars to better navigate curves. Includes description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines
- Patent for "... an improved washing-machine which shall be simple in construction, convenient in use, easily operated, and effective in operation." (lines 12-15)
- Improvment in Spray-Nozzles
- Patent for an improvement on spray nozzles for use with force pumps. These force pumps are used for spraying insecticide on cotton to protect the crop from cotton-worms and other insects.
- Improvement in the Manufacture of Hydraulic Stone.
- Patent for improvement in the manufacture of Hydraulic Stone to furnish and improved artificial stone for use in different purposes that can resist weather changes without being affected.
- Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.
- Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
- Improvement in Strap-Protector and Buckle
- Patent for improvements in strap-protector and buckle for harness in order for it to not become cracked or bent. Provides instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Vises
- Patent for new construction for vises that will "enable the vise to be set and secutured in any desired position and thus hold the work in a position convenient to the operator" (lines 8-10).
- Improvement in Toilet-Cabinets
- Patent for improved toilet cabinets in order to better arrange "cabinets for containing sewing, writing, and shaving materials and various other articles" (lines 8-10). Provides instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Stone-Dressing Tools.
- Patent for "an improved rotary hand-tool for dressing stone" (lines 7-8) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons
- Patent for an improvement on running-gears for wagons.
- Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.
- Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a medical compound consisting of magnesia, soda, potassium oxide, manganese, sodium chloride, acid phosphate of iron, sulfuric acid, and phosphoric acid. The compound is said to treat a wide variety of ailments.
- Improvement in Double-Acting Force-Pumps.
- Patent for a double-acting force pump that has "single cylinder and hollow piston-rod operate in connection with the upper and lower cylinder-valves, and with a valved piston adapted to have a reciprocal motion independent of and upon the hollow piston-rod, to discharge the water from both sides of the piston with a double action and in a continuous stream through said hollow piston-rod" (para. 2).
- Improvement in Lever-Powers.
- Patent for a lever-power which applies "the power and resistance to the lever, so that they will change positions with relation to the fulcrum as the power end of the lever descends" (para. 2). The relation of the lever with the fulcrum is flexible, and allows for increased leverage.
- Improvement in Shackles.
- Patent for a shackle for the hands and feet that is designed to prevent the use of objects in order to escape.
- Improvement in Sheet-Metal Hames
- Patent for improvement in hames by constructing them of sheet metal in order to prevent flatenning and wear on the hame. Explains how sheet metal hames are also flexibile in many attributes and because of this they are beneficial in many ways. Illustrations provided.
- Improvement in Fire-Lighters.
- Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Saw-Sets
- Patent for an improvement in a device which sets the teeth of a saw, with instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.
- Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.