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- Safety Lamp-Burner.
- Patent for a safety lamp-burner, which extinguishes itself when the lamp is tipped over.
- Bookbinding
- This is a letter patent for the bookbinding invention as a means for holding books, pamphlets, catalogs, and other similar paper materials together. The purpose of this invention is to make it possible to place additional material inside the same covers, and with the original contents of a book without breaking or tearing the binding.
- Process for Producing Fibrous Material from Rice-straw
- Patent for a process for producing fibrous material from rice-straw. The process was created to fiberize and use rice straw. Rice straw had little economic value but creating a process for fiberizing it might help to make this resource commercially useful.
- Oil Burner
- Patent for an oil burner
- Col. William N. Selig: The Man Who Invented Hollywood
- A book about Col. William N. Selig's career as an early cinematic pioneer and movie director and founder of the film industry that became Hollywood in Los Angeles.
- The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
- A book about the CIA and its relation to Hollywood.
- Multistate Surveys on the Regulation of Equine Performance-Enhancing Drugs
- Report on state laws regarding performance-enhancing drugs for show and race horses in California, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas.
- Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves
- Patent for transmitting sound waves by magnetic induction and to "furnish an apparatus by which these different vibrations can be heard at the receiving end" (lines 20-22). Includes descriptions and illustrations.
- Coach-Equalizing Suspender.
- Patent for a coach-equalizing suspender.
- Combined Latch and Lock for Screen Doors, etc.
- Patent for a combined latch and lock for screen doors and other uses. Illustration included.
- Playing-Cards.
- Patent for a card game that aims to teach players the workings of the electoral college. There are 208 cards, divided into four types: "eagle," "star," "banner," "flag," and gathering one of each type gives the player an electoral vote. The cards feature presidential candidates of the mid-1800s.
- Doll Novelty.
- Patent for a new device, which is a rounded, weighted base placed in a doll that allows the doll to raise itself when turned over on any side without external assistance by lowering the doll's center of gravity. Descriptions of materials used and illustrations are included..
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator with spring teeth that are stronger than ordinary cultivator teeth.