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82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 860, Chapter 417
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the authority of the El Paso County Hospital District to appoint, contract for, or employ physicians, dentists, and other health care providers.
Date:
2011-04/2011-06
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Cleaning System
Patent for an air cleaning system to be used in homes. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 20, 1909
Creator:
Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air Device for Gas Engines.
Patent for a removable automatic air device for delivering air to gas engines in proportion to the speed of the engine.
Date:
April 3, 1917
Creator:
Rivers, Charles A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Dump
Patent for automatic dumpers that can be readily and inexpensively fitted and adapted to most forms of dump car.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Putnam, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Separator and Evaporator.
Patent for an improved automatic separator and evaporator which controls the intake with an included air-lift or jet-ejector, including illustrations.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Allen, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Alarm.
Patent for a device to prevent the theft of automobiles capable of producing audio and visual signals as warnings of unauthorized access.
Date:
April 22, 1919
Creator:
Smith, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Billiard Cue
Patent for a billiard cue. This invention is designed with removable tips. Illustration included.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Borroughs, John Vertie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "improved and simple means for automatically and positively coupling the adjacent ends of railway-cars together" (lines 25-27).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Campbell, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Journal Lubricating Machine.
Patent for employed who related to car journal lubricating machine and oiling all classes of railroad cars and streetcars. Also, its benefits to improve the construction and increase the efficiency of machines of this character.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Fleischer, Lewis Bernard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge Belt.
Patent for a new and improved cartridge belt. This design "is to provide a new and improved cartridge-belt for holding cartridges securely, the said belt being simple in construction, strong, and durable. The invention consists in the combination of a belt, with a strap held on the same by up-right metal fasteners and forming pockets on the belt. The invention also consists in the combination, with the above belt and strap, of a cord passed transversely through the several pockets, and in other combinations of parts" (lines 11-18).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Beach, Willie P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Colonia Self-Help Program
Information sheet describing the Colonia self-help grant program for use in providing water and wastewater services in economically distressed areas near the border with Mexico.
Date:
April 2011
Creator:
Texas Water Development Board
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Faucet and Bottle-Washer
Patent for "a faucet which can be used merely as a faucet or which can be used for washing bottles, as may be desired" (lines 14-16).
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Horsley, John Shelton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shade and Curtain-Pole Bracket.
Patent for combined shade and curtain pole brackets to "be attached to the upper sash of the window" (lines 14), removable, and adjustable, with illustrations.
Date:
April 11, 1916
Creator:
Levingston, Thomas C. & Van Epps, Nettie M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined System of Electric Signaling and Switch Setting for Railroads
Patent for improved system of electric signaling and opening and closing rail systems.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Wagner, Bruno Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Controlling System for Motor-Traction Cars.
Patent for controlling systems for motor traction cars. These controlling systems provide automatic control outside the volition of the motorman.
Date:
April 2, 1912
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Briggs, George E. & Houlehan, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cylinder-Grinding Attachment For Lathes
Patent for an improved attachment for the lathe to grind cylinders of different sizes
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Snell, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dehydrator.
Patent for a continuous dehydrator that has specific use for gold and silver ores, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1917
Creator:
Biesel, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Preventing Overflow of Tanks.
Patent for preventing the "repeated discharge of the contents of a flush tank" (lines 10-11) and enhance overall utility that require a flush tank. Information and illustration provided.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Logan, Paul H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Digital Model for Simulated Effects of Ground-Water Pumping in the Hueco Bolson, El Paso Area, Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico
From abstract: The Hueco Bolson provides a substantial part of the municipal and industrial water supply of the El Paso area of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Although the supply of fresh ground water in the bolson is large, about 10.6 million acre-feet (13,070 hm^3) in 1973 in the Texas part of the bolson alone, the supply is being depleted.
Date:
April 1976
Creator:
Meyer, W. R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Engine.
Patent for a rotary engine with a coupled rotary shaft and piston. This engine uses a lubricant for keeping parts of the engine cool, including illustrations.
Date:
April 29, 1919
Creator:
Sheridan, Leslie M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Starting Device
Patent for engine starting device to prevent back-fires when cranking, complete with illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1915
Creator:
Kneezell, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Regulator
Patent for a device, used in connection with crushing and/or storage machinery, to assist in the distribution of dry, powdered, or fine feeding materials.
Date:
April 25, 1911
Creator:
Searle, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Spout Barrier
Patent for "a feel spout barrier for slime thickeners, settling tanks, separating tanks and the like" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Allen, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Filtering Material.
Patent for "improved filtering stuff composition" (lines 8-9), containing vegetable ashes and an insoluble binding agent for the purpose of purifying liquids.
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Müller, Enrique
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History