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Clinometer or Slope Measurer. (open access)

Clinometer or Slope Measurer.

Patent for a new and improved clinometer. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive device for taking measurements in prismoidal formula and to avoid the calculation of the triangle and enable the slope to be readily written from the instrument" (lines 16-21). It "compris[es] the square composed of the stationary short bar or arm and the stationary long bar or arm rigidly secured to one side of the short arm or bar and provided on its face with a spirit-level and having a scale of graduations of which the length of the short bar or arm is the unit, the curved brace connecting the said parts" (lines 60-68).
Date: January 6, 1891
Creator: Parks, James Harvey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Supply Tank For Water Service (open access)

Supply Tank For Water Service

Patent for a supply tank for water service. Illustration included.
Date: September 6, 1904
Creator: Leithauser, Peter Jarome
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for a pump for the purpose to pump out rising water in deep wells. Illustrations included.
Date: December 6, 1904
Creator: Leithauser, Peter Jerome
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-425 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-425

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners' Court of Donley County to call a reallocation election which would affect taxes for the current year.
Date: November 6, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History