Draft Attachment for Railway Cars (open access)

Draft Attachment for Railway Cars

Patent for a draft attachment for railway cars.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Agnell, Peter W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Does the Endangered Species Act Listing Provide More Protection of the Polar Bear? (open access)

Does the Endangered Species Act Listing Provide More Protection of the Polar Bear?

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Date: November 10, 2010
Creator: Alexander, Kristina
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polarographic Determination of Hexone (open access)

Polarographic Determination of Hexone

The following report describes polarographic methods that determine saturated aliphatic carbonyl compounds.
Date: November 10, 1949
Creator: Alkire, George J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oil Burner for Heating Purposes (open access)

Oil Burner for Heating Purposes

Patent for an oil burner for heating purposes. This is an improvement for the burning of liquid and gaseous fuel burners.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Anderson, George S. & Jevons, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cuff Holder. (open access)

Cuff Holder.

Patent for a new and improved cuff holder. This design "is chiefly to render cuffs hitherto buttoned to shirt-sleeves as readily attached or buttoned to coat-sleeves, in order that they may be removed from the wearer's person together with the coat to prevent the cuffs being soiled; and its object is also to avoid unbuttoning and buttoning cuffs to the shirt by means of the usual cuff-attaching buttons" (lines 24-32).
Date: November 10, 1885
Creator: Atkin, Samuel T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuclear Power for Pittsburgh : Final Report of Walter Kidde Nuclear Laboratories, Inc. on Duquesne-Kidde Nuclear Power Study (open access)

Nuclear Power for Pittsburgh : Final Report of Walter Kidde Nuclear Laboratories, Inc. on Duquesne-Kidde Nuclear Power Study

From foreword: The objective of this study is to determine the practical and economic use of nuclear for the production of electric power in the Pittsburgh district.
Date: November 10, 1955
Creator: Barker, James J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Steam-Engine. (open access)

Steam-Engine.

Patent for a steam-engine that has "no dead-center" (lines 15-16), and "a volume of one full port will always be exerted on a piston" (lines 18-19). "The full power of the steam will be applied when the crank is on the quarter and there is the greatest leverage in favor of the engine" (lines 21-24). Steam supply is regulated automatically and has a shutoff system in case anything breaks.
Date: November 10, 1896
Creator: Barton, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Machine (open access)

Wire Fence Machine

Patent for a wire fence machine. This invention is designed to tie wires to the line wires and line wires to the stay. Illustrations included.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Baumgartner, Blassie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles (open access)

Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles

Patent for an apparatus for controlling trolley poles. "This invention relates to an apparatus for controlling trolley poles employed for effecting electrical connection between a trolley wire and a motor on a car, and has for its object to provide improved means for automatically throwing the trolley into position to be placed in engagement with the trolley wire" (line 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Bogue, Judson L. & Jennings, David M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Cleaner. (open access)

Flue-Cleaner.

Patent for a flue cleaner for steam boilers, which has easily replaceable parts.
Date: November 10, 1908
Creator: Brown, James William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for an improvement to the washing machine that is included with illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1885
Creator: Burgess, Dudley L. & Broxton, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comb. (open access)

Comb.

Patent for an electronic heating comb providing an electric heating element.
Date: November 10, 1920
Creator: Caneavri, Joseph Ping.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
General Motors' Initial Public Offering: Review of Issues and Implications for TARP (open access)

General Motors' Initial Public Offering: Review of Issues and Implications for TARP

This report analyzes the progress General Motors Company has made since it was created from the sale of the bankrupt Old GM in July 2009 and the major issues related to its anticipated 2010 initial public offering (IPO).
Date: November 10, 2010
Creator: Canis, Bill; Webel, Baird & Shorter, Gary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Odorless Dry Outhouse and Refuse-Burner. (open access)

Odorless Dry Outhouse and Refuse-Burner.

Patent for a combined odorless dry outhouse and refuse burner for a cellar or vault in which night-soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time with low expense, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Jefferson County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Jefferson County, Texas

Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Jefferson County, Texas.
Date: November 10, 1915
Creator: Carter, William T. (William Thomas); Schoenmann, L. R. (Lee Roy Adolph); Bushnell, T. M. (Thomas Mark) & Maxon, E. T.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
End Gate Fastening for Vehicles (open access)

End Gate Fastening for Vehicles

Patent for end gate fastening for vehicles.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Clarke, William K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journalists' Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 110th and 111th Congresses (open access)

Journalists' Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 110th and 111th Congresses

This report gives an overview of the law regarding journalistic privilege. Included are the responses of the 110th and 111th Congresses regarding the law.
Date: November 10, 2009
Creator: Cohen, Henry & Ruane, Kathleen Ann
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voter Identification Requirements: Background and Legal Issues (open access)

Voter Identification Requirements: Background and Legal Issues

Since 2008, more than 30 states have enacted laws relating to voter identification, with several containing photo ID requirements. Several states enacted voter identification laws that have either been struck down by courts or are not yet in effect. A number of bills with voter identification provisions have been introduced in the 113th Congress and one (S. 1945) has received committee consideration. This report examines this type of legislation and the legal issues regarding it.
Date: November 10, 2014
Creator: Coleman, Kevin J.; Fischer, Eric A. & Whitaker, L. Paige
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electric Car-Brake. (open access)

Electric Car-Brake.

Patent for improvements in electrically controlled car-brakes with the various purposes of coupling and uncoupling, putting on and taking off brakes, signaling from car to car or train to car, lighting trains, and other purposes to which it may be adapted, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Car-Coupling. (open access)

Electric Car-Coupling.

Patent for invention that applies the use of electricity to various purposes of coupling and uncoupling, putting on and taking off brakes; signaling from car to car, train to car, or vice versa; lighting trains; and other purposes to which it can be adapted, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Connection and Signal for Railway-Cars. (open access)

Electrical Connection and Signal for Railway-Cars.

Patent for invention that applies the use of electricity to suitable electrically-operated devices throughout a train, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The American Steel Industry: A Changing Profile (open access)

The American Steel Industry: A Changing Profile

The U.S. steel industry has faced increasing difficulties since the late 1990s. About 40 U.S. steel producers have gone into bankruptcy. While different companies and parts of the industry have been affected to different degrees, the two types of domestic producers of raw steel, integrated mills and minimills, have both supported restrictions on imports, which they say have undermined the ability of the U.S. industry to produce steel economically. This report reviews industry developments and the economic situation of the steel industry, including legacy cost aspects of its problems.
Date: November 10, 2003
Creator: Cooney, Stephen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supporting Device for Umbrellas. (open access)

Supporting Device for Umbrellas.

Patent for a wearable umbrella holder, which holds the umbrella on the back and over the person's head to allow their hands to be free.
Date: November 10, 1908
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Plates 1-3: Aeroradioactivity Map (ARMS-II), Camden-Delaware Valley Area

Maps of three segments in the Camden-Delaware Valley area surveyed as part of a radiological survey, outlining "Radioactivity levels in hundreds of counts per second normalized to 500 ft above ground." Scale 1:250,000.
Date: November 10, 1961
Creator: Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library