Restoring Native Grasslands (open access)

Restoring Native Grasslands

This document provides information about restoring Texas grassland, range management, and watershed management.
Date: August 2004
Creator: Hays, K. Brian
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas A&M University Requests for Legislative Appropriations: 2018 and 2019 (open access)

Texas A&M University Requests for Legislative Appropriations: 2018 and 2019

Report submitted by Texas A&M University to the Texas 85th regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund programming and activities. It includes an overview of the institution's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2018 and 2019, and supporting documentation.
Date: August 2016
Creator: Texas A & M University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Torpedo. (open access)

Aerial Torpedo.

Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Synchronizing estrus in cattle (open access)

Synchronizing estrus in cattle

This document provides information on synchronizing estrus in cattle.
Date: August 2002
Creator: Sprott, L. R. & Carpenter, B. B.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
OTSC Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 3, August 2015 (open access)

OTSC Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 3, August 2015

Quarterly newsletter for the Office of the Texas State Chemist, containing news about the activities of the agency as well as other related information
Date: August 2015
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Chemist.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Forms (open access)

Locking Device for Forms

Patent for a locking device for forms that will not crush the edges of circular forms.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Irvin, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reversible Sad-Irons. (open access)

Improvement in Reversible Sad-Irons.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date: August 3, 1875
Creator: Smothers, Thomas T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Coupling Device (open access)

Rail Coupling Device

Patent for a rail coupling device. This invention is for coupling together parallel rail sections. It is designed to prevent the tracks spreading. Illustration included.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Gee, John Wharton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Doubletree Attachment (open access)

Doubletree Attachment

Patent for a doubletree attachments. Illustration included.
Date: August 16, 1910
Creator: Ball, William Rossem
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "ha[s] for its object the provision of strong and reliable means whereby any desired number of plow-shovels may be used and the distance between the said plows regulated or adjusted at will by very simple means. A further object is to provide means to enable all the plows, excepting two, to be removed, to adapt the device to be used to lay off rows at a predetermined distance apart to prepare for sowing" (lines 9-19).
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: Sutton, James Macaulay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History