Fire-Arm. (open access)

Fire-Arm.

Patent for an improvement to adjusting rifle barrels and holding those adjustments in place. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Alston, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arm for Telegraph - Poles. (open access)

Arm for Telegraph - Poles.

Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
In-Pile Slurry Loop Program (open access)

In-Pile Slurry Loop Program

The in-plie slurry loop work is now being considered as a joint program between the PAR project and ORNL. It is proposed that PAR design, fabricate and test the in-pile loops and that ORNL operate the loops in-pile, dismantle the loops after irradiation and made the appropriate measurements to determine the radiation effects. This report gives the objects of the slurry in-pile program and outlines the facilities and operations required to execute ORNL's part of this program.
Date: March 8, 1957
Creator: Arehart, T. A.; Compere, E. L. (Edgar L.); Ferguson, D. E.; Korsmeyer, R. B. & McBride, J. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Facilities Newsletter, February 2001. (open access)

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Facilities Newsletter, February 2001.

Monthly newsletter discussing news and activities related to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, articles about weather and atmospheric phenomena, and other related topics.
Date: March 8, 2001
Creator: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Numerical Solutions for Diffusion in a Sphere, Cylinder, and Plate (open access)

Numerical Solutions for Diffusion in a Sphere, Cylinder, and Plate

In calculating diffusion coefficients for gases diffusing from solids, the numerical solutions tabulated by Darken and Gurry, were found to lack the required precision, and the intervals between the arguments were too great to permit precise interpolations. Consequently the diffusion equation solutions of interest (diffusion from a sphere, cylinder, and plate, for the condition that the concentration of the diffusing species initially uniform) were re-evaluated. Computer programs for the three cases were written in FORTRAN for the IBM 7090. The solutions programmed are given in Crank. Values of the fractional completion were computed at approximately 0.01 increments, to the nearest 0.00001, and are tabulated in Table 1 to the nearest 0.0001. The table covers the fractional range from about 0.04 to 0.99. For smaller fractions satisfactory approximations are available. The table may be conveniently interpolated by plotting points about the region of interest and drawing a curve.
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Auskern, Allan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mosquito Netting Frame. (open access)

Mosquito Netting Frame.

Patent for a new and improved mosquito netting frame. This design "consists of a mosquito-netting frame formed of two longitudinal rods removably fastened to uprights attached to the bedposts, and held by cords or wires passing from the outer ends of each of said longitudinal rods to the top of each upright. A transverse rod or bar is removably attached to the outer ends of said longitudinal bars or rods. . . . [The design] is simple in construction, light, durable, and convenient" (lines 9-18).
Date: March 8, 1881
Creator: Bailey, Alfred H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
100-N Decontamination Facility Design Guide. (open access)

100-N Decontamination Facility Design Guide.

Space has been reserved near the southeast corner of the 100-N Area for the 122-N Decontamination Facility. Previous correspondence between Burns and Roe, Inc and General Electric bae discussed various facilities which might be needed in the building. The concepts of the decontamination processes are under active development by research groups at Hanford. At present, there are several workable processes known; each one has one or more fairly serious drawbacks.
Date: March 8, 1960
Creator: Bainard, W. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Governing Mechanism (open access)

Governing Mechanism

Patent for a governing mechanism. This invention relates to governing a plurality of engines in unison. Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Ball, Philip De C. & Wakefield, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley Wire Finder (open access)

Trolley Wire Finder

Patent for a trolley wire finder. This invention to improvements in trolley-wire finders, and more particularly to its attachment to trolley-poles and trolley-harps as a means of assistance in guiding the trolley wheel has been shifted from or slipped off said trolley-wire and is of advantage as a means of saving time." (8-16). Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Barnhusrt, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process For Treating Crude Oil (open access)

Process For Treating Crude Oil

Patent for a process to treat crude oil.
Date: March 8, 1912
Creator: Barnickel, William S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Long Coil Measurements Satisfy Two-Dimensional Field Equations (open access)

Long Coil Measurements Satisfy Two-Dimensional Field Equations

The amount by which the field of a magnet bends the path of a charged particle is proportional to the integral of Btds along the trajectory. Instead of making tedious point by point measurements of B in magnets and performing the integrations numerically, it has been found useful to measure directly, by using a search coil whose winding consists of long and narrow turns extending through the magnet gap from z1 and z2 in the direction of the trajectory. It should be noted that the integral Iy is taken along a straight x=constant, y=constant lines and not along the actual curved trajectory path; for small curvature the difference is small.
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Beth, R. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application and Operation of the 325 Building Well Counter (open access)

Application and Operation of the 325 Building Well Counter

Well-type scintillation counters have found use in many radiochemical laboratories. A gamma scintillation well counter has been used to measure the gamma activity of liquid samples in the 325 Building counting room for about a year. This well counter has been built and calibrated so that gamma activity measurements made with it can be easily compared with measurements made with the gamma scintillation counter (GSC). The well counter is electronically identical to the present GSC and differs only in the shape of the crystal used and the physical arrangement of the lead shield. The crystal contains a well which allows a tube containing the sample to be inserted in the crystal. The physical arrangement of the detector greatly simplifies the preparation of liquid samples for activity measurement. The 325 Building well counter and its application to chemical research and plant process analysis will be discussed in the following paragraphs. An operating procedure is also included.
Date: March 8, 1956
Creator: Brauer, F. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a cotton press, which can be run with either wormed gearing or beveled gearing depending on the pressure desired to be exerted on the cotton.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Breihan, Frederick F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
United States Government Budget Receipts, Expenditures, Surplus or Deficit, and National Debt Level Associated with Each President of the United States, 1789-1973 (open access)

United States Government Budget Receipts, Expenditures, Surplus or Deficit, and National Debt Level Associated with Each President of the United States, 1789-1973

This table maps out receipts and expenditures for each President of the United States.
Date: March 8, 1972
Creator: Brite, George K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Nations System Funding: Congressional Issues (open access)

United Nations System Funding: Congressional Issues

This report tracks the process by which Congress provides the funding for U.S. assessed contributions to the regular budgets of the United Nations, its agencies, and U.N. peacekeeping operation accounts, as well as for U.S. voluntary contributions to U.N. system programs and funds. It includes information on the President's request and the congressional response, as well as congressional initiatives during this legislative process. Basic information is provided to help the reader understand this process.
Date: March 8, 2010
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann & Nakamura, Kennon H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Horse Breaking Device (open access)

Horse Breaking Device

Patent for a horse breaking device. This invention is designed to break the horses without balking. Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Bump, James G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Marine Creek Corridor Linear Park Improvements Project Area, Tarrant County, Texas (open access)

Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Marine Creek Corridor Linear Park Improvements Project Area, Tarrant County, Texas

An archaeological survey report of the proposed site of the Marine Creek Corridor Linear Park Improvements Project in Fort Worth, Texas to determine whether there were any cultural resources in the area.
Date: March 8, 2012
Creator: Chavez, Michael R. & Hall, Crystal
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reconnaissance for uranium in parts of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado (open access)

Reconnaissance for uranium in parts of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado

Discussing a reconnaissance carried out for uranium in parts of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado
Date: March 8, 1957
Creator: Chenoweth, William L. & Stchle, F. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Glove Box Integrity Study (open access)

Glove Box Integrity Study

The amount of dry air or inert gas supplied to a "one pass" glove box ventilation system is proportional to the glove box inleakage. Most glove boxes in the 234r5 Building are equipped with sundry attachments, each contributing to the inleakage. No individual leak rate date is available for these auxiliary components in the "as installed" condition. Nor is the effect of time upon the leak rates known. Knowledge of these values, or at least an indication of the order of magnitude of the leakage attributable to each item, would provide a basis for analyzing glove box ventilation problems and for establishing criteria for new glove box designs.
Date: March 8, 1960
Creator: Ciccarelli, R. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personnel Dosimetry of Very High Energy Radiation (open access)

Personnel Dosimetry of Very High Energy Radiation

Before discussing personnel monitoring of high energy radiations, it is appropriate to comment briefly on two basic methods of dosimetry applicable to such situations. In the first of these methods, one measures the rad dose in air with a tissue-equivalent ionization chamber that is operated with enough voltage on the collecting electrode to insure saturation even when the radiation is concentrated in short pulses, as is frequently the case. The linear energy transfer (LET) spectrum of the radiation is then determined and an average value of relative biological effectiveness (RBE) is determined. An experimental evaluation of the depth dose situation completes the data necessary for a full evaluation of the biological hazards. The method is completely general but is most applicable to situations where a substantial proportion of high energy components is present in the mixed radiation. It should be noted that the detailed composition of the radiation need not be known. Thus, components of dosage to which an RBE of 1 is assigned may be due to X-rays, gamma rays, or the ionization tracks produced by protons in the Gev energy range as well as by many other types of radiation. This method is applied frequently to the situation …
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Cowan, Fredrick P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stirring-Machine. (open access)

Stirring-Machine.

Patent for "agitating-machines adapted to be used for various purposes," (lines 8-10) including washing clothes and freezing ice cream. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 15, 1890
Creator: Crawford, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Summary of the Geology of Crooks Gap, Fremont County, Wyoming, as Related to Uranium Resources (open access)

A Summary of the Geology of Crooks Gap, Fremont County, Wyoming, as Related to Uranium Resources

A report summarizing the geology of Crooks Gap, Fremont County, Wyoming, as related to Uranium Resources
Date: March 8, 1967
Creator: Curry, Donald L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Screen for Wells. (open access)

Screen for Wells.

Patent for a well screen for water or oil wells.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Dahl, Harry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preliminary Evaluation of Chlorine for Use as a Gas Cooled Reactor Safeguard* (open access)

Preliminary Evaluation of Chlorine for Use as a Gas Cooled Reactor Safeguard*

A coolant line rupture during operation of a high temperature gas cooled graphite moderated reactor would present a serious hazard. The reactor would immediately depressurize and a great deal of air would be introduced into the coolant stream. As the air passed over the graphite moderator a runaway oxidation reaction would probably ensue unless an adequate safety system were available. This investigation was designed to evaluate chlorine as a reactor safeguard to be used to control a runaway reaction. Throughout this study, a small amount of chlorine in an air stream has demonstrated the ability to substantially reduce the oxidation rate of graphite. This has been the case even where the principal oxidizing agent was molecular oxygen or ozone.
Date: March 8, 1960
Creator: Dahl, R. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library