Stormwater Management : Rain Gardens (open access)

Stormwater Management : Rain Gardens

This document provides information on rain gardens for stormwater management.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Jaber, Fouad
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Madison County, Block 6

Parent map for Madison County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date: January 7, 2011
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Madison County, Block 11

Parent map for Madison County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date: January 7, 2011
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Madison County, Index

Index map for Madison County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:86,998.
Date: January 7, 2011
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tierra Grande, Volume 8, Number 1, January 2001 (open access)

Tierra Grande, Volume 8, Number 1, January 2001

This is a quarterly journal provided to real estate licensees covering information related to various aspects of real estate buying and ownership in Texas. Articles in this issue cover downtown office space in Austin, commercial landlords, real estate legends, telecom hotels, solution to water pollution, Dallas opens its light rail system, and capital gains.
Date: January 2001
Creator: Texas A & M University. Real Estate Center.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cattle-Guard (open access)

Railway Cattle-Guard

Patent for a railway cattle guard whereby the weight of the animal causes a barrier to emerge, but the barrier will be removed automatically when the weight is removed.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Fountain, Henry L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Key-Ring Holder. (open access)

Key-Ring Holder.

Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.
Date: January 16, 1917
Creator: Kropp, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for an improvement to reversible plows. The plow specified is capable of throwing dirt to both the left and right sides.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Sramek, Jacob
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for new and useful improvements in wire-stretchers. The "invention has relation to improvements in wire-stretchers, and especially to that class of wire-stretchers employed in wire-fence building or repairing" line 10).
Date: January 28, 1902
Creator: Dunlap, Sam H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer. (open access)

Poison-Distributer.

Patent for a poison-distributer. This invention relates to improvements in poison-distributers, the objects in view being to provide a cheap and simple machine for an efficient manner over the entire surface of cotton-plants for the purpose of destroying the worms, and, furthermore to so construct the machine as to adapt it to readily pass through ordinary-sized gates.
Date: January 26, 1892
Creator: McGee, Joseph Thomas & Carr, Robert Wooten
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Toy and Bottle Stopper. (open access)

Combined Toy and Bottle Stopper.

Patent for a novel bottle stopper. This design "consists in certain improvements in [bottle stoppers] whereby the outpouring fluid may be utilized to set in motion an automaton attached to said stopper" (lines 18-21).
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History