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Animal-Trap.
Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Buckersberg, Simon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes.
Patent for a new and useful air supplying device for diving purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Hensley, Frank A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane that will maintain its balance in the air automatically
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
McManus, Augustus F. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animated Sign
Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date:
September 5, 1922
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4250
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is it necessary for the commissioners' court to advertise for bids in the sale of hospital bonds to be issued by Bexar County?
Date:
January 5, 1942
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proceeding: Conference on Education, November 1971
A presentation of the proceedings at the "Conference on Education" held in WOAI-TV studios on November 5, 1971, in San Antonio, Texas, discussing problems, solutions, and additions to the current education system.
Date:
November 5, 1971
Creator:
WOAI-TV (Television station : San Antonio, Tex.)
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: October 1991 [Part 2]
Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities. This set of reports includes information about the Board of Adjustment for October 1991.
Date:
November 5, 1991
Creator:
San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 2001
Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date:
February 5, 2001
Creator:
San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: March 1982 [Part 3]
Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date:
April 5, 1982
Creator:
San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: March 1982 [Part 4]
Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date:
April 5, 1982
Creator:
San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: July 1999
Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date:
August 5, 1999
Creator:
San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Proposal for a Financial Model for Educational Problems
This report details a mathematical model addressing the financial structure of the Edgewood Independent School District and the impact of multiple-unit housing construction in the surrounding area, allowing public administrators to calculate the economic impact of alternative programs and polices over a ten year period.
Date:
March 5, 1970
Creator:
Southwest Research Institute
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Sign.
Patent for an advertisement sign with a translucent display band that illuminates different sections of letters, numbers, or figures, in various colors, giving the appearance of animation.
Date:
August 5, 1919
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Brake.
Patent for vehicle-brake, with description and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1885
Creator:
McIntosh, John L.; Bacon, Edward Hamlin & Vail, Theron
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern-Top
Patent for a lantern top that provides sufficient ventilation for the lamp or lantern. The arrangement of the lantern top provides sufficient communication between the interior of the lantern and the surrounding atmosphere to insure steady burning.
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Moore, Thomas Lindsay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Construction
Patent for improved valve construction which permits unobstructed passage from valves to intake and exhaust pipe in motor vehicles.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Smith, Thomas Noah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking System For Jail-Doors.
Patent for a new locking system for jail-doors with a unique arrangement of parts, including specifications and illustrations.
Date:
May 5, 1914
Creator:
Youngblood, David Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag Catcher and Deliverer.
Patent for "a device capable of catching or transferring mail bags from a mail bag hanger to the mail car while the car is in motion, the device also acting to deliver a mail bag at the same station, if necessary, one operation in no manner interfering with the other." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1895
Creator:
Sliger, Charles F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Rotary Valve And Seat.
Patent for an improvement in the construction of a rotary valve and seat. Specifications for the new construction and illustrations are included.
Date:
August 5, 1879
Creator:
Watkins, Edward L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller for Boats.
Patent for improvements in propellers for boats by “having a pair of hinged propeller-blades adapted to swing toward and away from each other, combined with fixed prongs; which are engaged with the propeller blades and hold them from displacement.” (Lines 60-65) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Gillespie, Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring and Proportioning Machine.
Patent for "a device by which the mixing of various ingredients in certain desired proportions may be easily and accurately accomplished" (lines 8-11). It is meant for industrial measuring.
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Collins, Alonzo G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Preserving and Storing Building.
Patent for a preservation and storing building which uses ventilation and air purification to preserve perishable items. Includes a description of the building design and illustrations.
Date:
August 5, 1902
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Chute
Patent for Stock-Chute. "The object of my invention is to supply railroads with a cattle-chute which not only require less work and fewer laborers to operate it, but will afford a perfectly safe means of transferring stock without liability of injury to the stock during the act of transfer." (lines 56-62) With Illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Hess, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Touch-Regulator for Pianos
Patent for a touch regulator for pianos.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Goggan, Michael
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History