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Combined Railway-Rail Chair and Tie

Description: Patent for an improved railway-rail chair and tie
Date: January 10, 1888
Creator: Marks, Nicholas Marie
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Suspension-Bridge

Description: Patent for a suspension bridge which functions are to "transmit a given pressure equally in either direction therefrom to the piers or abutments; second, to balance a given pressure irrespective of its location; third, to provide an elastic yielding road-bed or flooring which will transmit the pressure of an incumbent weight or strain; fourth, to increase the length or span over an existing conditions; fifth, to dispense with piers, except on the shore margins; sixth, to facilitate the construc… more
Date: December 18, 1888
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heating Railway-Cars

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction and design of car heaters for locomotives.
Date: May 29, 1888
Creator: Townley, Carter Shepherd
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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