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Process of and Apparatus for Making Halids
Patent for a new and improved process of and apparatus for making halides which transmit the necessary heat to the reaction mass by preheating the chlorine and not through the wall as in usual types of retorts.
Date:
July 8, 1919
Creator:
Abbott Lyle Stockton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Friction-Clutch
Patent for friction clutch (used in automobiles) that would allow better control over rotary parts, even when driving in reverse. The improved control is partially due to the inclusion of a tension device unique to this clutch.
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Barry, David Redmond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 17, 1900
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 73, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 18, 1900
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 18, 1900
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Enterprise (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 82, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 28, 1900
Daily newspaper from Beaumont, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 28, 1900
Creator:
Bixler, Mort L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Shane Sinegal on July 1, 2016.
Discussed his early life in a segregated Port Arthur, his education, and his work with youths in the criminal justice system, and later, in education.
Date:
July 1, 2016
Creator:
Bobadilla, Eladio & Sinegal, Shane
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Melbourne Ernest Beular]
Photograph of Melbourne Ernest Beular (January 8, 1904, Sabine Pass, TX – March 10 1982, San Diego, CA) at six months old. She wears a white gown and stands on a wicker chair, her hands gripping the chair handle.
Date:
1904-07~
Creator:
Brook's
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hotel Office Dinkey
Patent for an hotel office dinkey. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Browder, Henry Worden
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propelling or Power-Generating Mechanism.
Patent for the constructions of a propelling machine of a vessel, which is provided an electric motor in an engine as a power source for propelling the vessel.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Caldwell, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jefferson County
Map of Jefferson County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
July 22, 1896
Creator:
Clark, J. F.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch
Patent for a railway switch. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Collier, William Reid
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Beaumont High School]
Postcard of Beaumont High School in Beaumont, Texas, on College Street near Neches and Trinity streets. Printed on the top left of the postcard is "High School, Beaumont, Texas." Handwritten on the back of the postcard, "7-29-14 Thanks for very pretty card. Come again with more like it. Sincerely Francy D. Driehs Beaumont Box # 74 Texas." The card is addressed to Harry Kerkow 404 E. Alleghany St. Austin Minn.
Date:
July 29, 1914
Creator:
D. J. Hicks
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with J. Frank Rollins, July 20, 1996
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Interview with J. Frank Rollins, an oilman and a geophysicist, concerning his work experience with Petty Geophysical Engineering Company doing refraction seismic work; his employment with Geophysical Service, Inc.; doing reflection and refraction work in 1936; oil exploration in South America; work in oil field instrumentation equipment; work as a "computer" interpreting geological data; founding of Rayflex Exploration Company in 1948; technological developments for oil field exploration; geochemical surveying; the sale of Rayflex to Phillips-Eckhart in 1962; his work as a geophysical consultant; the application of oil field technology to national defense; German espionage activity in South America during World War II; and pro-German activity in South Louisiana during World War II.
Date:
July 20, 1996
Creator:
Daniels, John D. & Rollins, J. Frank
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Mrs. Davis to Mrs. Kempner, July 5, 1944]
Letter from Mrs. Davis to Mrs. Kempner about the Beaumont unit's equipment, the play that the Army was providing, and the veterans of World War One.
Date:
July 5, 1944
Creator:
Davis, Laura Frazier
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Well Drill.
Patent for a new rotary oil drill with improvements to anchor the drill-pipe, improve oil flow, and prevent blow-outs of the drill-pipe.
Date:
July 3, 1903
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Hammering Machine.
Patent for a simple hammering machine for circular saws that "carries the saw in such a way that it may be held at any necessary or desired angle to suit the operator, which has a sliding anvil adapted to be adjusted so as to come opposite the various parts of the saw, which is provided with an adjustable hammer adapted to be brought opposite the anvil, which is constructed so as to cause a blow to expand both sides of the saw equally, and which in general is intended to facilitate the quick and efficient hammering of a saw" (lines 12-23).
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Dillon, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Workshop Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 16, 1975
Summer workshop newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with editorials.
Date:
July 16, 1975
Creator:
Duerr, Kay & Benton, Teresa
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Civil Air Patrol Memo]
Photograph of a memo with a message about late checks, at Civil Air Patrol Base 10 in Beaumont, Texas.
Date:
July 1943
Creator:
Fisher, Larry Jene
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave Motor
Patent for an improvement to wave motors, intended to use "the force of waves as motive power for operating machinery" (lines 9-10).
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Ford, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Still for Distillation of Petroleum
Patent for improvements in still design for distillation of petroleum or its products, providing relief for any suddenly formed vapors and preventing the oil from boiling over.
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Gallsworthy, Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Preserver.
Patent for life preserver worn on the human body and inflated with a valve attached to rubber tubes. Includes illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Graham, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Rudene Graham to Yvonne Sutherlin, July 15, 1985]
Letter from Rudene Graham to Yvonne Sutherlin, on July 15, 1985, discussing the research they have both been doing into their ancestors. Graham asks Sutherlin about a book she had heard of concerning the Sutherlin family.
Date:
July 15, 1985
Creator:
Graham, Rudene
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Edward Moore on Jul;y 18, 2018.
Mr. Moore was the first Black elected official in Jefferson county (County Commissioner, 1986) and was involved in various aspects of pressuring the city for Black civil rights. He shared what he remembered about the 1943 race riot in Beaumont, mentioned class divisions within the segregated Black communities in Beaumont, discussed the significance of unions for workplace advancement, was critical to Black representation on schools boards/in PTAs, and helped form the South Park Voters League to initially influence school board elections and, later, Black voter enfranchisement.
Date:
July 18, 2016
Creator:
Grevious, Danielle; Bobadilla, Eladio & Moore, Edward
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Toni Prados on July 18, 2016.
Mrs. Prados is the first Black female car salesperson, a long-time NAACP member, and was raised in segregated Beaumont. Her job and later business ventures exposed her to many facets of discrimination in the city, and she shared a lot about being ignored on boards like the Chamber of Commerce or in Black, male-dominated spaces. She also discussed dealing with a racially "transitioning" business as well as difficulties she continues to experience with the city when attempting to pass inspection and reopen her beauty salon.
Date:
July 18, 2016
Creator:
Grevious, Danielle; Bobadilla, Eladio & Prados, Toni
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History