Degree Department

Dental-Plate-Polishing Tool. (open access)

Dental-Plate-Polishing Tool.

Patent for a machine that dresses or reduces dental plates uniformly, and can dress dental plates to any thickness. It also can "provide permanently-exposed means for indicating the thickness to which the plate is being reduced" (lines 16-19). It will not puncture or weaken dental plates.
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Barnes, Preston B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lampsilis teres, Specimen #268

One preserved mussel specimen including the left valve only. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Brazos basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be very-long dead when collected.
Date: October 1, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Potamilus purpuratus, Specimen #628

One preserved mussel specimen including the right valve only. The specimen exhibits an oval shape; thick shell; pink internal coloring; olive external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Brazos basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: October 1, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pyganodon grandis, Specimen #796

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Brazos basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be long dead when collected.
Date: October 1, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of King Ranch [KR] bluestem grass thought to have been brought into native grass pature in 1942. The grass is spreading rapidly. Mr. Boas White reports that the livestock grazed the KR bluestem as well as the native grasses. TX-46, 433.
Date: October 1949
Creator: Brock, C. G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Planter Attachment For Cultivators. (open access)

Planter Attachment For Cultivators.

Patent for a new and useful planter attachment for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Collier, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap. (open access)

Insect-Trap.

Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Cook, Katherine B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for rail joints that will remove the need for bolts to secure the chairs. The joints will also allow the chair to be removed from the rail without using tools.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Ernest, Albert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hobble. (open access)

Hobble.

Patent for a new, simple hobble for cultivators made up of fewer parts to reduce cost and for east of use and adjustment. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1917
Creator: Ferguson, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff, October 3, 1927] (open access)

[Letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff, October 3, 1927]

Handwritten letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff, delivering requested documents.
Date: October 3, 1927
Creator: Gaertner, H. C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff, October 5, 1927] (open access)

[Letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff, October 5, 1927]

Letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff regarding a series of decisions made by their supervisory committee.
Date: October 5, 1927
Creator: Gaertner, H. C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff, October 22, 1927] (open access)

[Letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff, October 22, 1927]

Letter from H. C. Gaertner to R. Osthoff, handwritten in German.
Date: October 22, 1927
Creator: Gaertner, H. C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attatchment For Tractors. (open access)

Draft Attatchment For Tractors.

Patent for Draft Attachment For Tractors for the improvement of farming tractors. This invention includes adding machinery to allow interchangeable farming tools for a wide variety of uses.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Gaida, Wale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support. (open access)

Tongue Support.

Patent for a new and improved tongue-support. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive tongue-support capable of being readily applied to any vehicle" (lines 9-12). It "consist[s] of the two wires provided intermediate their ends with coils and twisted together at opposite sides of the coils to provide the spring-arms" (lines 48-51).
Date: October 25, 1892
Creator: Johnson, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Blum band] captions transcript

[News Clip: Blum band]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6 P.M.
Date: October 8, 1987
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Elsesser tape #2] captions transcript

[News Clip: Elsesser tape #2]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: October 16, 1979
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Marjorie Herrera Lewis autographing books at the Friends of Hillsboro City Library Author Luncheon at the Hillsboro Historic City Hall]

Photograph of Marjorie Herrera Lewis sitting at a table for a book signing event called Friends of Hillsboro City Library Author Luncheon held at Hillsboro Historic City Hall. The author and photojournalist is looking away from the camera and smiling. She is holding a pen and a there is a stack of books to her right on the table.
Date: October 24, 2019
Creator: Keelin, Russell
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Folding Luggage-Carrier (open access)

Folding Luggage-Carrier

Patent for improvements on rear folding luggage-carriers for motor cars.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Monroe C. & Dobbs, Charles S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hill County

Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 30, 1857
Creator: Martin, Joseph
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Car Net (open access)

Safety Car Net

Patent for safety car-net to be attached to train freight-cars closing the space between adjacent cars and protecting train workers from falling.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Matthews, Harrison C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Measuring, Weighing, and Registering Machine. (open access)

Measuring, Weighing, and Registering Machine.

Patent for machine that automatically weighs cotton seed while in transit from the cotton gin or grain from the grain elevator to the mill.
Date: October 21, 1919
Creator: Muirhead, Alfred Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1904
Creator: Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hills County Courthouse, (scaffolding on dome)]

Photograph of the Hills County Courthouse in Hillsboro, Texas.
Date: October 1, 1995
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
I-35 Statewide Corridor Plan: A Path to 2040 (open access)

I-35 Statewide Corridor Plan: A Path to 2040

None
Date: October 2016
Creator: Texas. Transportation Planning and Programming Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History