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Soil Survey of Austin and Waller Counties, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Austin and Waller Counties, Texas.
Date:
1981
Creator:
Greenwade, James M.; Crenwelge, Wilfred; Schlappi, Ronald L.; Hitt, Stanley G. & Stewart, Michael
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Soil Map, Austin County, Texas
Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:253,440.
Date:
1981
Creator:
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alleyton, Texas: Back Door to the Confederacy
This book contains the history of Alleyton, Texas, which is located in Colorado County. The book includes information about the Alley family, the founding of Alleyton, reminiscences and recollections, as well as the establishment of railroads, local businesses, schools, and churches.
Date:
1993
Creator:
Harrison, William H.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 1, Number 6, August 1990
The Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal contains historical information about Colorado County, Texas including personal accounts and research into area stories.
Date:
August 1990
Creator:
Nesbitt Memorial Library
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
An Evaluation of Zavala Elementary School, Austin, Texas
This study is an evaluatioon of Zavala Elementary School in Austin, Texas in order to determine administration strengths and weaknesses.
Date:
August 1939
Creator:
Lamb, W. Edwin
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 381, Chapter 1195
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the service area of the Blinn College District.
Date:
June 18, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Steam-plows.
Patent for improvement in the apparatus for turning up soil with a steam plow.
Date:
August 15, 1871
Creator:
Miller, Herman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in combined planter and cultivator by “combining instruments such as hoppers, plow-beans, brace-bars, foot-levers and many others that required for preparing the ground, planting the seed, and cultivating the plants and which may be easily adjusted for the various uses.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 16, 1869
Creator:
Switzer, W. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Methods of Adjusting Signaling-Mirrors.
Patent for an improvement in the "method of throwing reflected light of a mirror with accuracy upon a distant object in flash-signaling" (lines 5-7), including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1873
Creator:
Kenney, Martin M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Handsaws
Patent for an improved handsaw with changes made to the teeth, frame, and bolts.
Date:
May 15, 1877
Creator:
Shave, Levi & Reams, Sherwood Young
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers.
Patent for new improvement in the construction of horse-powers for cotton-gins and other machinery, including illustration.
Date:
February 17, 1874
Creator:
Landes, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
Patent for an insecticide that kills ants via fumigation. Ingredients include sulfur, charcoal, potassium cyanide, arsenic, and coal tar.
Date:
September 22, 1874
Creator:
Tottenham, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Derricks.
Patent for improvement in portable derricks by using an “adjustable crane mounted on a truck-platform, having an overhead frame for the support of the upper end of the crane-post, and braces for staying the frame, so that the crane can be turned around to overhang the sides.” (Lines 6-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 16, 1876
Creator:
Reams, Shirwood Y.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Stock.
Patent for a new and improved plow-stock. This design is of "an improved plow-stock, which shall be so constructed that various kinds of standards, according to the various kind and size of the plows to be used, may be attached to it, which may be adjusted to take and leave land, as may be desired, and which shall be simple in construction and easily adapted" (para. 4).
Date:
January 16, 1877
Creator:
Weber, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the rounded meeting ends of the main levers and the equalizing-link connecting the same; the rounded meeting ends of the toggle-levers concentrically arranged with reference to the sill-bearings; the perforated connecting-pin for the upper ends of each pair of toggle-levers, and the securing-bolts thereof passed through the heads of the toggle-levers; the end openings in the lower portion of the baling-box and the vertically-reciprocating doors in connection therewith" (lines 19-30).
Date:
August 8, 1882
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Alarm
Patent for a "simple and cheap as well as ornamental bicycle-whistle...of novel and peculiar construction, adapted for attachment to the bicycle and made to sound at pleasure" (lines 14-18). Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date:
July 13, 1897
Creator:
Crump, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Hatchet.
Patent for a new and improved carpenter's hatchet. This design, "by curving or convexing the back of the hatchet downward from the eye to the rear end of the blade [it] greatly facilitates the ease and efficiency with which the hatchet can be used in driving nails in angles and corners—an improvement which will be at once appreciated by all carpenters—while by forming the back of the blade with the opposite recesses, leaving the thin wall between them, the hatchet can be used as a screw-driver, and the carpenter can thus dispense with the use of a separate screw-driver" (lines 67-79).
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
Stopple, John Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a simple, metallic, and inexpensive clothes pin that can be used with a rope or wire line. It can be attached easily but will not blow off. It does not rust or tear the clothes.
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Crump, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Baling-Press
Patent for "a device capable of being applied to any horizontal baling-press for the purpose of compressing the charge of hay or other material before it enters the baling-chamber" (lines 10-14).
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
Bailey, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improvements in "the class of baling-presses in which the follower is forced upward in the press-box by a lever pivoted or fulcrumed upon the ends of toggle-arms, and having a rope or chain for drawing it into an upright position," (lines 26-31) with illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1887
Creator:
Stopple, John Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Roaster.
Patent for a new and improved coffee roaster. This design utilizes handles "so arranged as to enable the operator to shake it and move it upside down and about with great facility. The perforated or wire-cloth bottom and top allow the heat from the stove or fire to pass unobstructed to the coffee, so that a strong and uniform heat is applied. The wire-cloth bottom also acts as a sieve . . . and it does not scratch or burn the grains" (lines 49-58). The design eliminates the need for a stirring utensil.
Date:
January 9, 1883
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cork Extractor.
Patent for a new and improved cork extractor. This design consists, "with the side-slitted cork, of the double-wire extractor having loop ends engaging the slits of the cork and extending beyond the same and the securing-wire passing through said loop ends and around the shoulder of the bottle-neck" (lines 47-52).
Date:
October 5, 1886
Creator:
Crump, William E., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a clamp that is used in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Howard, Zenas F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Washing Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dish-washing machine. This design "relates to machines for cleansing dishes, clothes, and other articles of that class in which the water is agitated. The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and generally efficient machine that will perform its functions speedily, and will require but very little expenditure of operating power" (lines 10-17).
Date:
December 4, 1883
Creator:
Harris, Charles Alexander.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History