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Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference, Seventeenth Session. (open access)

Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference, Seventeenth Session.

Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the conferences, resolutions, constitution of the board of church extension, selected biographical sketches, and the report of the treasurer of the board of missions.
Date: 1882
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Jack. (open access)

Wagon Jack.

Patent for a new and improved wagon jack. This design "relates to wagon-jacks, the object being to provide a jack of simple and economical construction which will be applicable alike to light and heavy vehicles. The invention consists in [an] improved construction" (lines 9-14).
Date: March 28, 1882
Creator: Clark, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a coupling-pin, of the arm, rod[s], clip . . . and lever . . . [t]he combination, with a draw-bar having the extension of a lever limited by the stop-pin . . . [and] [i]n car-couplings, the coupling-link, made in two U-shaped parts, pivoted together . . . and sustained in coupling position by [a] spring or springs" (lines 96-105).
Date: October 17, 1882
Creator: Hale, Nathan M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists essentially of contrivances for setting the buffer or draw-bar and a pin setting, tripping and uncoupling device higher or lower for adapting the coupling to couple self-actingly with cars different in height" (lines 8-13).
Date: November 21, 1882
Creator: Hale, Nathan Mathias
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History