Boiler-Feed Regulator. (open access)

Boiler-Feed Regulator.

Patent for a new and useful boiler feed regulator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Mitchell, Charles Bradley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Stewart, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate. (open access)

Collapsible Crate.

Patent for a collapsible crate, which is easier to ship while collapsed and cheaper to make.
Date: August 6, 1907
Creator: Ivey, Henry Curtis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbid-Feed Device for Acetylene-Gas Generators. (open access)

Carbid-Feed Device for Acetylene-Gas Generators.

Patent for a carbide-feed device for Acetylene gas generators, which prevents moisture from getting into the carbide and causing it to stick to the walls of the feed tube.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Weaver, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. This clothing pin is made of wire and designed to be used for hanging clothes on a line. Illustration included.
Date: November 6, 1906
Creator: Luster, Thomas A. & Stewart, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton

Patent for a seed-cotton handling machine for use in cotton gins which as an improved elevator and feeding system.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle. (open access)

Bottle.

Patent for non-refillable bottles which can be filled and emptied easily with inexpensive construction. Instead of a stopper, a bottleneck pattern can be used which is efficient and safer.
Date: August 5, 1902
Creator: Holland, Willie Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Patent for new weighing machine and hopper dispensing cotton-seed meal, including illustrations
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Kinard, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard for Railroads. (open access)

Cattle-Guard for Railroads.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard for railroads that improves on preventing cattle from passing from their enclosure onto a railway track. The invention does not trap animals or people or cause injury, and lies below the upper treads of the rails.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Brady, Peter L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a simple cattle-guard that provides an unstable footing for the cattle without injuring them, and thus preventing the cattle from going onto train tracks. The cattle do not get injured when stepping on this device.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Brady, Peter L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buckle and Back Band Hook. (open access)

Buckle and Back Band Hook.

Patent for a new and improved buckle and back-band hook. This design "contemplates certain improvements in combined buckles and back-band hooks; and it consists of a buckle having, or to which may be separately applied, a peculiar hook or tongue" (lines 10-14).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Munger, Ennis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton-Seed Platter (open access)

Corn or Cotton-Seed Platter

Patent for improvements in "a combined plow and interchangeable revolving seed-dropper so constructed as to permit of its being readilyconverted into a corn or cotton-seed planter with the least trouble" (lines 19-23).
Date: February 18, 1890
Creator: Peeler, John Wiliam
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Chopper, Harrow, and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton-Chopper, Harrow, and Cultivator

Patent for an improved version of a machine which aids in the processing and maintenance of cotton plants. Includes description of parts and their use and illustrations.
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Robinson, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boot and Shoe Indicator. (open access)

Boot and Shoe Indicator.

Patent for a new and improved boot and shoe display. This design "is to provide an indicator for the use of retail dealers in boots and shoes, or other merchandise and wares, by which apparatus the stock can be kept with great accuracy and facility. To that end . . . an indicating-plate with slides [is included], which is to be attached upon the boxes, shelves, drawers, or other receptacles for the goods, as an indicator for showing what goods are contained in the receptacle" (lines 8-17).
Date: April 3, 1883
Creator: Woodlief, George T. & Dunn, George Roe.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Robertson County, Texas.
Date: January 8, 1909
Creator: Bennett, Hugh H. & Shaw, Charles F.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, Robertson County sheet

Map displays soil types along with lakes, rivers, coal mines, towns, churches, schools, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: January 8, 1909
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-801 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-801

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legislative authority to enact S.B. No. 87, relating to issuance of bonds by Robertson County to fund outstanding scrip.
Date: April 2, 1949
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Robertson County, Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Robertson County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1999
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Robertson County, Block 14

Parent map for Robertson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Robertson County, Block 1

Parent map for Robertson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Falls County, Index

Index map for Falls 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 1:95,603.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History