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Simmons College, Abilene, Tex., Will Begin Its First Collegiate Year, Tuesday, September 13, 1892.
Flyer announcing the opening of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas provides details about the faculty, course of study, facilities, living arrangements, and expenses.
Date:
1892~
Creator:
Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Simmons College, 1893-1894
Catalogue describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
1894~
Creator:
Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Simmons College, 1892-1893
Catalogue describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
1893
Creator:
Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Simmons College, 1894-1895
Catalogue describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
1895~
Creator:
Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Simmons College, 1895-1896
Catalogue describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
1896~
Creator:
Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Simmons College, 1897-1898
Catalogue describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
1898~
Creator:
Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Simmons College, 1896-1897
Catalogue describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
1897~
Creator:
Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Simmons College, 1898-1899
Catalogue describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas.
Date:
1899~
Creator:
Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of a Bearded Man]
Photograph of a bearded man wearing a buttoned jacket, waistcoat, and a white collared shirt.
Date:
1890~
Creator:
Kavanaugh
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Texas
This book covers statistical information for the state of Texas. It includes "great inducements for the investment of capital, health for the invalid, interesting sights and scenes for the tourist and pleasure seeker, broad fields of research for the historian, unsurpassed hunting grounds for the sportsman, and other resources waiting to be unlocked by the key of capital in the hands of labor and industry" (title page).
Date:
1890
Creator:
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine
Patent for "a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may accomplish with facility and case all the purposes for which it is intended" (lines 13-16).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Wright, Joseph W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Rope Fastener
Patent for improvements in design for wire rope fasteners, includes Illustrations.
Date:
January 31, 1893
Creator:
Widmer, Louis John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine.
Patent for am adding machine by using two disks, one a units-disk with pins in multiples of ten, one a tens-disk, is an annular disk with pin surrounding the units disk, an outwardly spring-pressed holder having a beveled outer end frictionally engaging the pins of the tens-disk and a carrier having oppositely-beveled ends engaged a supplemental pin and one pin on the tens-disks, teeth in the adjacent faces of the holder and carrier, and an idle-gear between them to enable the adding operation. (Lines 50-62) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 12, 1891
Creator:
Wright, Joseph W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hook and Hammer.
Patent for a combined hook and hammer meant to "combine in its structure the ordinary hook for engaging with the article to be moved, and a handle adapted, when desired, to be used as a hammer, thus dispensing with the necessity for a separate implement of this character, and, second, to combine with the said hook and handle improved means for preventing the accidental contact of the hand of the operator with the article to be handled" (lines 17-26).
Date:
July 2, 1895
Creator:
Tillett, Henry Augustus; Tarpley, Thomas Dee & Moore, Robert Jones
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash.
Patent for an improved window sash that is meant to "provide means for securing a sash in its frame whereby it is capable of free movement, and at the same time is dust-proof, wind-proof, rain-proof, and snow-proof" (lines 9-13). The sash does not rattle and cannot be displaced from the outside.
Date:
June 6, 1893
Creator:
Roach, George W. & Ralph, Sidney L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretching Spool-Carrier.
Patent for a wire-stretching spool-carrier that can be easily mounted to the back of a wagon and can stretch wires to the desired amount of tension. Coils are on the mount on the wagon.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Williams, Thomas P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Brake.
Patent for a break that "the device may be brought to a stop either gradually or instantaneously as may be desired. The break is a reciprocative one and comprises a rubber or other elastic or yielding wheel designed to engage the periphery of the fly wheel of the motor and a lug, tooth or analogous provision for engagement with a tooth of a ratchet wheel on the said fly wheel; in operating the break the rubber wheel is first brought into contact with the fly wheel and then by continued movement of the brake lever the said lug or projection enters a tooth of the ratchet wheel and stops the revolution of the same" (lines 14-27).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Boulte, Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Utensil.
Patent for a kitchen utensil that can be used for washing dishes, scraping cooking vessels, and cleaning ornamental glass and silver.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Adair, Annie E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Cooking Stove.
Patent for a new and improved steam stove. This design "is to provide a stove . . . that can be used on a gas-stove base, a lamp-stove, an ordinary cooking-stove, or even over a camp-fire, and which when so used will provide an apartment for baking or warming and another apartment for steaming, the steam being generated within a surrounding boiler and by the heat that has been used to heat the oven" (lines 11-20). It consists in "a casing divided vertically by a transverse boiler-body, chambers in the sides of the lower-half of the casing . . . and a transverse pipe" (lines 34-38).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
James, Will S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Condenser.
Patent for an improved, simple, and compact steam-condenser that is meant to be used in tea factories and similar places where distilled water is needed, and has the minimum amount of back pressure.
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Steinbarth, Carl
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler
Patent for a device used for cooling milk consisting of "a vessel adapted to contain any desired quantity of milk, of a cloth or fabric covering enclosing said milk receiving vessel and provided at an intermediate portion of it's length with a series of openings or perforations, and means of saturating said inclosing cloth with water" (lines 13-19).
Date:
January 24, 1893
Creator:
Nerger, Charles G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track-Raiser.
Patent for an improved track-raiser used during constructing and repairing railways. It is a jack that raises and holds a rail in place.
Date:
October 16, 1894
Creator:
Steed, Thaddeus Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Heater.
Patent for improvements in “tire-heating furnace where tires of various sizes may be heated either independently or continuously and having certain other highly advantageous characteristics.” (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 16, 1891
Creator:
Cook, Nathan H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History