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Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 1. Main Report
Water plan for Region I (East Texas) describing water sources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies for suppliers and counties, water conservation plans, drought response plans, financing of the plan, and the process of creating the plan.
Date:
December 1, 2015
Creator:
Alan Plummer and Associates
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 2. Appendixes
Appendices for the water plan for Region I (East Texas) including water management strategies, water needs, water conservation methods, species of concern in the area, financing methods, and related reports.
Date:
December 1, 2015
Creator:
Alan Plummer and Associates
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for "improvements in hand fertilizer-distributers and seed-drills," (lines 19-20) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Barbee, Napoleon B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consists in a combination-tool embodying in a single implement a nail and staple-puller, pinchers, nail-straightener, and wire-cutters, the device being more particularly designed for use in constructing, taking down, and resetting wire fencing" (lines 7-12).
Date:
July 22, 1884
Creator:
Beazley, James Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a new and useful harrow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 26, 1899
Creator:
Blount, Blanton E. & Guice, Benjamen R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that has a new design for a "subsoil and harrow attachment to the ordinary break-plow" (lines 9-10).
Date:
May 19, 1896
Creator:
Bowers, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Brooks, John Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Attachment for Invalids.
Patent for a new and improved bed attachment for bed-ridden persons. This design "consists, principally, of a frame, hinged between the side boards of the bedstead, said frame having a removable seat and adapted to be brought to a vertical position for supporting the [bed-ridden person] in a sitting position. The invention also consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date:
October 11, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Joshua Perry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
Burran, William Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washboard.
Patent for a new washboard with "simple durability, and cheap construction, . . . [which is] serviceable and efficient in its use" (lines 12-14), including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Bush, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Houston County, Texas
Text describes the history, climate, physiography and geology, soils, and agricultural conditions of Houston County, Texas.
Date:
1906
Creator:
Carter, William T. (William Thomas) & Kocher, A. E. (Arthur E.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved dredging-scraper. This design "has for its object the production of a marine plow which shall serve to raise and remove obstructions and accumulations from the beds or channels of rivers, bays, harbors, and other water-courses; and the invention consists in a device for this purpose of novel construction . . . The plow, which is to be drawn over the bed of the water-course to be cleared—as, for instance, by drag chain or cable attached to a steamboat—operates to raise a few inches in depth of the deposit each time it passes over the bed or bottom of the water-course" (lines 9-22).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Coult, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Controlling the Flow of Navigable Rivers or Other Waters.
Patent for a new means of controlling the waters. This design "is to remove or prevent the formation of sand-bars at the mouths of harbors elsewhere, calculated to obstruct navigation; also, to prevent the overflow of navigable rivers and the breaking of levees or destruction of jetties. [The] invention consists in a novel means of accomplishing these and other like ends by mechanical forces applied to increase the natural current or outflow of the navigable water toward its outlet or the ocean through the instrumentality of suitably located and anchored vessels provided with propelling devices" (lines 8-21).
Date:
October 1, 1889
Creator:
Coult, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
De Force, Samuel A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters.
Patent for "an improved machine for cultivating cotton" (lines 15-16)including illustrations. The machine is used to "bar off, scrape, chop, and dirt the cotton upon both sides of a row at one passage." (lines 17-19)
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
De Force, Samuel A. & McConnell, William V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Bed Bottom.
Patent for a new and improved spring bed-bottom. This design utilizes a new method of coiling the wire so that only one wire may be used to make up all of the springs. By moving diagonally from one end of one spring to the end of another, this design eliminates the possibility of losing any individual spring.
Date:
October 18, 1881
Creator:
Eichelberger, Henry. H. C. & Bruner, Hilary Wentz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tourist's Glass.
Patent for improvements to tourists' glasses, "intended for use to tourists, hunters, ranchmen, botanists, minerologists, and analogous purposes" (lines 25-27) including illustrations.
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Faehrmann, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters
Patent for "improvement in Seed Planters as herein described and pointed out in the claim..."(paragraph 4 contains instructions and references to the illustration Fig 1 and Fig 2 as well as these illustrations labeled parts)
Date:
February 25, 1873
Creator:
Friday, Reuben
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a seed-planter, of a main frame having side beams, the standard secured midway between said beams at their forward ends, and provided at its lower end with a shovel and a presser located immediately in rear of said shovel, the hopper supported on said side beams, and having its planting mechanism arranged to drop the seed directly in the furrow formed by the shovel and presser, [and] wheel journaled in the side beams in rear of the planting mechanism" (lines 3-14).
Date:
October 13, 1885
Creator:
Gardner, Robert J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alto Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date:
1946
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alto Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date:
1946
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Augusta Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1982
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Augusta Quadrangle
Satellite image topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
2010
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Augusta Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date:
2013
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History