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Elevated Railway, &c

Description: Patent for improvements "to provide an improved track having provisions for readily tightening the track, each span or section being tightened by means of a single tightening device arranged, preferably. . . second, to provide an improved truck with guiding rollers or pulleys, the weight of the truck being carried upon yielding supports; third, a simple and improved swivel or turning device or connection between the car and track, whereby the turning of curves is more easily accomplished with a… more
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M. & Taylor, James P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Time-Alarm and Annunciator

Description: Patent for "a combined call and annunciator system by which any number of signals can be sent automatically or manually and various signals received through the annunciator, the apparatus serving to send signals to or from any number of distant points on the circuit at any time" (lines 17-23).
Date: April 4, 1890
Creator: Suren, Nathan H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for improvements in baling presses "in which the necessary motion may be imparted to the plunger in a rapid and effective manner, and which shall be productive of considerable saving of labor and power" (lines 15-19)
Date: April 29, 1890
Creator: Anderson, Zachariah J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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