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Arc-Lamp Headlight

Description: Patent for an electric arc headlight for trains, cars, or boats which produces a steady light and lasts long enough to allow travel over long distances.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Lacy, Benjamin B.

Car Truck

Description: Patent for car truck. "This invention relates to car trucks, and one of the principal objects of the same is to provide an arrangement of equalizers which will reduce the lateral swinging motion of the car when passing around curves" (line 8-12). Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Haver, Edward H.

Bust-Developer

Description: Patent for a bust developer which is battery operated and attaches cups to the breasts to draw the blood into the breast area and cause them to enlarge.
Date: October 12, 1909
Creator: Eganhouse, John G.

Bottle

Description: Patent for a glass bottle designed to "prevent the refilling of a bottle when the original contents have been poured therefrom" (lines 10-12).
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Tull, Francis S.

Cistern-Guard.

Description: Patent for a device that guards the water cistern against impure water which drains from the roof of a building to which the cistern appertains.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Johnson, Charles W.

Bale-Tie.

Description: Patent for a bale-fastening device that "may be applied with facility to a cotton-bale or to an equivalent package." (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations. The tie comprises "a band, a key engaged with the band and rotatable to coil the same therearound, and a lock fitted upon the band and engaged with the key to prevent reverse rotation thereof" (lines 105-109).
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
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