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Soil Survey of Bowie County, Texas
Text includes description of climate, agriculture, and soils.
Date:
1921
Creator:
Schoenmann, L. R. (Lee Roy Adolph), b. 1889
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile.
Patent for an automobile with a mechanism which may be extended to form a tent bed, or folded into a small compass. The folding bed of the automobile may be utilized to storm camp equipment when not used as a bed.
Date:
January 4, 1921
Creator:
Mackey, Franklin Orville
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocker
Patent for cotton blockers that prevent crops from becoming covered in soil during the harvesting process.
Date:
February 15, 1921
Creator:
Fowler, Alonzo. J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Signal.
Patent for turn signal improvements with an aim to improve visibility of signal and ease of replacement with the goal of communicating vehicular movement and reducing accidents.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Squier, William Ernest
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chuck.
Patent for chucks that secure pipes, preventing movement when being cut or threaded, including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1921
Creator:
Castanie, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable End Die.
Patent for improvements to adjustable end dies. These improvements allow convenient rethreading of bolts while it is engaged with an object.
Date:
February 8, 1921
Creator:
Wright, John G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling.
Patent for improvements to couplings for windmills specifically "for use in connecting the pump rod to the reciprocal rod of the windmill, so as to permit reciprocation of the wind mill rod independently of movement of the pump rod, and which also will permit the relatively quick and easy change from windmill power to engine power, such as gasolene engine or the like, for pumping water from wells" (lines 9-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Regenier, John G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Weevil Catcher
The objective of the invention is to improve to catching and destroying boll weevils with a device that is easily attached to a cultivator. This device includes "receptacles filled with an insect destroying liquid." (lines 23-24).
Date:
July 5, 1921
Creator:
Ploch, Alex
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cereal Food and Process of Preparing the Same.
Patent for improving cereal food processing by grinding corn and other grains into meal to convert starch into dextrin, and through drying grains to remove moisture and prevent fermentation (lines 17-23). Additionally, the processing will make the cereal appetizing and easily digestible.
Date:
November 1, 1921
Creator:
Kelly, Martha R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Bowie County sheet
Map displays soil types along with lakes, rivers, creeks, towns, schools, churches, stores, roads, and railroads. Includes legend.
Date:
1921
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Freestone County, Texas
Text describes the climate, agriculture, and soils of Freestone County, Texas.
Date:
1921
Creator:
Hawker, H. W. (Herman William); Hayes, F. A.; Stroud, J. F. & Gearreald, Neal
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Freestone County sheet
Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, fish holes, fishing clubs, ferries, towns schools, churches, ranches, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date:
1921
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nueces Sheet
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 1:125000
Date:
1921
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Waco Sheet
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 1:125000
Date:
1921
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rowena 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 1:31680
Date:
1921
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bronte 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 1:31680
Date:
1921
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tarida Ranch 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:
1921
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Progressive Electrostatic Separation of Comminuted Material
Patent for a new process and equipment that improves upon prior work to separate comminuted materials. This patent explores the new process which "provides means for moving the electro-static waves or charges across the line of normal movement of the material upon a support of between two opposing stationary electrodes by so directing and controlling the electric charges, that each bar electrode is charged in succession across the deck and at an angle to the movement of such deck, whereby the difficulties in separating certain classes of comminuted material with moving electrodes are overcome" (lines 32-42).
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Lacasa Area, Ranger District North-Central Texas
This document reports the economic geology of the Lacasa area, Ranger district in North-Central Texas, with fieldwork done in April and May of 1919.
Date:
December 23, 1921
Creator:
Ross, Clarence S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dredge-Pump
Patent for new and useful improvements to Dredge-Pumps. The pump is used to draw up sand and gravel from the bottom of a river.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Stenberg, Anders Gustaf
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aircraft
Patent for Improvements to aircraft steering. The invention allows the pilot to adjust the center of mass.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Johnson, Louis V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbon-Removing Tool
Patent for a new and improved carbon removing tool, which allows for the removal of carbon from the pistons of internal combustion engines. Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Slagle, Eugene H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester
Patent for a cotton harvester "with an improved arrangement of combined gathering and picking arms" (lines 12-13) to more effectively obtain the cotton bolls (i.e. balls), including illustrations.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Stanton, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Mold for Concrete Walls
Patent for metallic molds for concrete or plastic walls. These molds have been improved in terms of their construction. Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Bolton, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History