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[Photograph of Early Martin with Railroad Crew]

Photograph of Early Martin sitting on the edge of a log eating his lunch - a lunch kit is open on the ground between his legs. Behind Early Martin is a railroad handcar on a railroad track; two men on either side of the handcar are also resting. A handwritten note on the back reads, "Early Martin with crew on railroad."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Hand Car.

Patent for a new and improved handcar. This design "is to provide for hand-cars a motive power which will produce a high rate of speed and which will enable a hand-car to be propelled in either direction without necessitating turning the car end for end" (lines 9-14). It consists of "an opening in its platform disposed over one of the axles, a rectangular casing arranged over the opening, a drive-shaft journaled in the sides of the casing, a train of gears consisting of cog-wheels and pinions c… more

Date: May 17, 1892

Creator: Parker, Joseph R.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hand-Car.

Patent for an improvement on the construction of the driving mechanism and brake on hand-cars.

Date: September 8, 1896

Creator: Small, Henry