Grate (open access)

Grate

Patent for grate that are applied to the fire box of a boiler.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Brown, Sidney E. & Kain, Harry C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freight Car Door (open access)

Freight Car Door

Patent for a freight car door. Illustration included.
Date: August 30, 1904
Creator: Herndon, Joseph R. & Marshall, Edward S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Fan. (open access)

Advertising-Fan.

Patent for "an attractive sign, which by reason of its revolutions will receive notice from the general public and illustrate business cards or signs, and furthermore to operate the same by and in conjunction with a fan, such as is commonly used in public places." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Lo Casto, Tony
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Connector for Lamps (open access)

Connector for Lamps

Patent for a connector for headlights that allows them to turn and to be operated from one location in the car.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: McKiel, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling (open access)

Automatic Air-Brake Coupling

Patent for "improved automatic pipe-coupling which shall overcome the difficulties found in the devices of this class heretofore in use, and which shall be cheap to manufacture, easy to repair, simple in construction, and extremely effective in use and operation" (lines 27-33).
Date: July 30, 1889
Creator: Roquemore, Peter G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Heated Steering-Wheel. (open access)

Electric-Heated Steering-Wheel.

Patent for a steering wheel with an electrical heating unit for an automobile.
Date: December 30, 1913
Creator: Smith, Reuben S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-232 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-232

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 the Texas Education Agency should, in determining the economic index and in calculating the amount of local funds to be charged to each school district in Harrison County, remove from the total “value added by manufacture” the value of products manufactured on federally-owned military reservations in Harrison County.
Date: March 30, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Driving-Box (open access)

Locomotive Driving-Box

Patent for a locomotive driving box which provides shoes, wedges, and other train parts for repair. Illustrations included.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: Walsh, Frank A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History