Artificial Tooth. (open access)

Artificial Tooth.

Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Carroll, Houston Monroe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check - Spring. (open access)

Check - Spring.

Patent for a new and improved check-spring. This design "relates to check reins; and its object is to provide a new and improved check-spring for preventing sudden jars to a horse's mouth when the animal throws his head forward" (line 7 - 11).
Date: January 18, 1898
Creator: Walker, Fred B. & Reid, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for improvements in combination-tools especially adapted for repairing rubber tires.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Green, Samuel Milton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c. (open access)

Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c.

Patent for improvements in bungs and air connections for beer-kegs by using a metallic bung which has an opening (a bung-hole), “and provided atone side with a passage, the passage being interiorly threaded at its outer end, an air-tube provided with a valve and having a swiveled member exteriorly threaded and engaging the threaded portion of the passage, and the cork or stopper arranged within the inner portion of the bung-hole and closing the inner end of the passage.” (Lines 116-123, p. 3) Illustration is included.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Morawetz, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Bicycle-Rest. (open access)

Adjustable Bicycle-Rest.

Patent for a new and useful adjustable bicycle-rest, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Wise, Harry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pressure Valve (open access)

Back-Pressure Valve

Patent for a back pressure valve for well drilling which may be "removed from the well with facility and despatch" (lines 18-20).
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Neighbors, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Automobiles (open access)

Attachment for Automobiles

Patent for a spring motor attachment for automobiles.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Carroll, Houston M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can-Filling Machine. (open access)

Can-Filling Machine.

Patent for a new and useful machine for filling bottles and analogous receptacles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 2, 1900
Creator: Gebhardt, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crutch. (open access)

Crutch.

Patent for improvements in crutches by making the crutch adjustable in length according to a person’s height and “overcome the jerks by the movements with the crutches.” (Lines 15-16) Illustration is included.
Date: January 8, 1901
Creator: Hough, Orson E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle. (open access)

Bicycle.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bicycles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: White, Edward Y.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal. (open access)

Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.

Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date: January 28, 1896
Creator: Innes, Robert Hayward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Change-Maker. (open access)

Change-Maker.

Patent for "improvements in money-drawers which are designed to separate the coin placed therein according to the various denominations, and at the same time providing means whereby change may be readily had" (lines 8-13) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1891
Creator: Johnson, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved design for freight car coupling. This design calls for a sliding block, with the assistance of metal pins, to lock the link between two freight cars firmly in place. This eliminates the possibility of accidental disconnect.
Date: January 11, 1881
Creator: Upson, Bolivar J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bench Clamp. (open access)

Bench Clamp.

Patent for a new and improved bench clamp. This design, "[b]eing made of iron or other suitable material . . . is strong, durable, and inexpensive. It requires no bolts or screws to secure it to the work-bench or other object where its use may be required, and can be put in position and removed easily and quickly. It occupies but little room on account of its compactness, and can be applied to any piece of work without marring it" (lines 72-80).
Date: January 25, 1881
Creator: Murphy, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-382 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-382

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether it would be constitutionally and statutorily sound for Bexar County Hospital District to admit patients who are neither needy nor indigent, and who are fully able to pay for any medical care rendered by the Hospital District.
Date: January 26, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6728 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6728

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether S. B. 246 or H. B. 849, Acts 49th Legislature, Regular Session, 1945, applies to Bexar County.
Date: January 31, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-196 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-196

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; The constitutionality of Acts 1973, ch.224 ,p.520, providing for a jail administrator for Bexar County.
Date: January 4, 1974
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Bexar County, Block 26

Parent map for Bexar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:11,000.
Date: January 11, 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): Bexar County, Inset N01

Inset map for Bexar County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:571.
Date: January 11, 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): Bexar County, Block 51

Parent map for Bexar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:11,000.
Date: January 11, 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): Bexar County, Inset F03

Inset map for Bexar County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:7,500.
Date: January 11, 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): Bexar County, Block 22

Parent map for Bexar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:11,000.
Date: January 11, 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): Bexar County, Block 3

Parent map for Bexar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:11,000.
Date: January 11, 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): Comal County, Block 9

Parent map for Comal County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.
Date: January 12, 2011
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History