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Occurrence, Availability and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 1
Report on the quality and availability of ground water in the cretaceous aquifers of north-central Texas. Includes maps, hydrographs, rainfall data, pumpage, and more.
Date:
April 1982
Creator:
Nordstrom, Phillip L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an improved windmill, a wind-driven wheel which will operate with the wind blowing in any direction and without the necessity of a typical vane and which produces a maximum velocity with a minimum amount of wind.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Bartlett, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that is simpler, more durable, and cheaper to make than previous ones and allows for easier adjustments in plowing depth.
Date:
April 23, 1907
Creator:
Stafford, George A. & Henry, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snap Cotton Crusher and Separator
Patent for a machine designed for crushing, separating, and cleaning bolls of cotton. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for a washing machine.
Date:
April 7, 1903
Creator:
Densler, Nat
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Railway-Signal.
Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reaping-Machine.
Patent for a reaping-machine that has grooved rollers spread throughout a recess in the base, slides where the rollers are mounted, horizontal movable shafts with pinions, racks on the slides that engage the pinions, a ring-driver wheel that surrounds the rollers and fits in the rollers with interior flanges, cutters, a belt extending from the rollers to the mechanism that operates the cutters, and a belt that connects the rolls. The cutter is a series of knives on a bar and springs that prevents the cutter from moving independently.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Rich, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cultivator and Chopper.
Patent for a cotton cultivator and chopper, with illustrations. The "invention pertains to that class of machines which are designed and employed for thinning out and cultivating rows of cotton plants" (lines 15-18).
Date:
April 3, 1883
Creator:
McCarty, Eugene
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener.
Patent for a window sash lock that will hold the window in place at the desired position and is easy to attach and operate.
Date:
April 16, 1907
Creator:
Miller, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine
Patent for a cotton "wheeled cultivator" (line 14-15) attachment which allows users to make adjustments to the cultivator blades, including illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1920
Creator:
Sims, James G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Sack.
Patent for a new and improved sack for cotton pickers. This design "is to improve that class of sacks which are used by cotton-pickers and form a receptacle for cotton after it has been culled from the bolls, and in which it is carried to the gin. These sacks as now made are packed with cotton so as to be unwieldy, difficult to manipulate, and unhandy to empty, thus necessitating a great deal of labor and much waste of time" (lines 7-15).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Dye, Charles Headen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Cotton Thresher, Cleaner and Storage Unloader
Patent for a pneumatic cotton thresher, cleaner, and storage unloader for use in cotton gins.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History