Coin Operating Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Operating Vending Machine

Patent for a coin operated vending machine. Illustration included.
Date: December 6, 1904
Creator: Davis, Alvah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Thompson, George C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane which has its equilibrium maintained by the operator through levers that bring the plane up or down.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: McManus, Augustus F. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Buckersberg, Simon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Generator (open access)

Acetylene Generator

Patent for an acetylene generator. Illustration included.
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Sinclair, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barrel Swing for Store Counters (open access)

Barrel Swing for Store Counters

Patent for a barrel swing that allows the barrel to swing out from under the counter. Illustration included.
Date: December 21, 1909
Creator: Gimbal, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Switch (open access)

Automatic Railway Switch

Patent for a automatic railway switch. Illustration included.
Date: December 20, 1904
Creator: Lee, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-brake (open access)

Car-brake

Patent for a car-brake that improves the ability of a train to stop its forward motion.
Date: December 29, 1900
Creator: Wise, Harry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese-Cutter (open access)

Cheese-Cutter

Patent for cheese cutter that features improvements which include guides for the knife, the box and cover, and the means for holding the cheese in place on a rotatable platform.
Date: December 30, 1902
Creator: Niggli, Emil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes. (open access)

Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes.

Patent for a new and useful air supplying device for diving purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Hensley, Frank A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle (open access)

Bottle

Patent for a bottle. Illustration included.
Date: December 27, 1904
Creator: Marion, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device (open access)

Amusement Device

Patent for an amusement device. This invention is designed as an apparatus for a swing, a trapeze, a horizontal bar, and seesaw. Illustration included.
Date: December 18, 1906
Creator: Haye, August, of San Antonio, Texas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane that will maintain its balance in the air automatically
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: McManus, Augustus F. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Switch Socket and Plug (open access)

Combined Switch Socket and Plug

Patent for a combined switch socket and plug for lamps and light bulbs. Illustrations included.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: McNeel, William Pinkney
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Service Cock. (open access)

Automatic Service Cock.

Patent for a new and improved automatic service cock. This design "furnish[es] an improved automatic valve to form the connection between the water-main or distributing pipe and the service-pipe of a building for regulating the flow and pressure of water in such service-pipe and preventing overpressure" (lines 7-12).
Date: December 20, 1881
Creator: Freeman, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that operates automatically and without causing danger to the railway employees. It operates by a lever on the side or top of the car.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Burglin, Bernhard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for "invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplers" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1892
Creator: Lee, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Truck. (open access)

Barrel-Truck.

Patent for a new barrel truck or wheeled dolly design for moving barrels or boxes more easily, including illustrations.
Date: December 27, 1887
Creator: Wilson, William W. & Newton, Jeremiah L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bitters. (open access)

Bitters.

Patent for stomach-bitters (a bittersweet digestive aid) “a new and healthy composition of matter to be used as a tonic, and to be known as the ‘Improved Bitters,’ ” (lines 5-7) which includes ingredients and dosage. Ingredients are Cologne spirits (the highest grade of distilled alcohol), Ceylon cinnamon, orange-peel, galanga-root, zedoary-root, cloves, star aniseed, coriander, Roman chamomile-flowers, cassia-buds, juniper-berries, gentian-root, wormwood, peppermint herb, calamus-root, elder-flowers, lavender-flowers, cardamom-seed, and mace.
Date: December 9, 1884
Creator: Kieffer, Nickola
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7539 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7539

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: May the Commissioners' Court of Bexar County establish a county law library under the provisions of Articles 1697-1702, inclusive, without taking into account the provisions of Article 1702a-1? And related questions.
Date: December 21, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-184 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-184

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 Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Property subject to taxation for the benefit of Bexar County Hospital District and related questions.
Date: December 30, 1955
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-972 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-972

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Are the salaries of the District, County and Precinct Officers of Bexar County to be determined as of May 18, 1960, the date of the preliminary announcement of the director of census and related questions.
Date: December 13, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-740 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-740

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Changing date of election for district trustees of an independent school district in Bexar County.
Date: December 4, 1970
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

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

Index map for Atascosa 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 1:104,397.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History