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Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Smart, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine. (open access)

Washing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists of "the rotating disk or circular-washboard, faced with radial ribs and operated by a crank which is supported in a plane parallel to the bottom of the box, so that the circular board shall rotate at a right angle thereto; the galvanized-sheet-iron inner box, made with a semi-cylindrical bottom to receive the circular wash-board; and the separate detachable wash-board, provided with a semicircle of radial ribs, and which fits into the sheet-iron box opposite to the circular rotating board" (lines 18-28).
Date: May 30, 1882
Creator: Fuchs, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Tuning Hammer. (open access)

Piano-Tuning Hammer.

Patent for "a combination tool adapted for turning, driving, extracting, and otherwise manipulating tuning-pegs and other parts of a piano-action, whereby one tool is capable of performing the functions of a series of ordinarily independent instruments." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Fuchs, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Financial Report: 2011 (open access)

Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Financial Report: 2011

Annual financial report of the Capital Area Council of Governments including summaries and statements for relevant funds, as well as supplementary information.
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. C. Riley to Dr. Joseph Pound, July 30, 1898] (open access)

[Letter from D. C. Riley to Dr. Joseph Pound, July 30, 1898]

Letter written by D. C. Riley to Dr. Joseph Pound saying at one point that he would love to meet his friend Dr. Powell; later in the letter Riley says: "Show him this letter and if he wishes it I will let him have it" in regards to a certain medicine.
Date: July 30, 1898
Creator: Riley, D. C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - July, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - July, 1943]

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor for work in District 11 from July 1-29, 1943.
Date: July 30, 1943
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History