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Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 34, Ed. 1, Tuesday, November 11, 1856
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 11, 1856
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 17, Ed. 1, Tuesday, July 11, 1854
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 11, 1854
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 40, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 11, 1855
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 11, 1855
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 13, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 11, 1861
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 11, 1861
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Weekly News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 11, 1844
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 11, 1844
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 11, 1847
Semiweekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 11, 1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Times. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 11, 1843
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 11, 1843
Creator:
Pinknard, F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Times. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1, Saturday, March 11, 1843
Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 11, 1843
Creator:
Pinknard, F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring and Mortising Machine.
Patent for a machine to bore square holes in substitute for a chisel and reduce labor, including illustration. The inventor calls it a "Mortise and Tenon Machine."
Date:
July 11, 1848
Creator:
Swingle, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
Patent for an improved fire escape "apparatus for receiving without injury persons or goods falling from windows of burning buildings" (line 18-20).
Date:
September 11, 1877
Creator:
Shishmanian, George N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Uncoupling Device.
Patent for a new and improved uncoupling device for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head provided with a vertically-movable coupling-pin support and lifting frame, a spring holding the coupling-pin support in raised position, a catch for holding the pin-support in lowered position, and a lever mechanism for releasing the catch and effecting the uncoupling of a car" (lines 7-14).
Date:
December 11, 1888
Creator:
Rutledge, William O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Truck.
Patent for a new and improved car-truck. This design "relates to railway-car trucks; and it consists in providing the axle inside the wheel with a supplementary journal and shoulder and a supplementary journal-box supported above the inside journal by the truck-frame, said supplementary journal-box being immediately over the inside journal and arranged so as to support the truck on the inside journal should the outside journal become broken or inoperative by means of a hot box or otherwise" (lines 10-20).
Date:
September 11, 1888
Creator:
Tull, Francis Shalis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Ventilator.
Patent for a new and improved car-ventilator. This design consists in "an eduction pipe arranged lengthwise of the car" (lines 103-104). It further consists in a casing "at the end of the pipe, the fan-wheel mounted upon a shaft within said casing, [another] casing arranged adjacent to the [first] casing, a fan-wheel arranged within [a third] casing upon an extension of the shaft, and valves in the eduction pipe, to be opened and closed by the air" (lines 1-7).
Date:
October 11, 1887
Creator:
Tull, Francis Shalis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Roofs.
Patent for improvements in the construction of roofs, including instruction.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Boyd, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mailing-Box.
Patent for a mailing box with curves and grooves to fit the cover and securing string with illustrations and assembly instructions.
Date:
May 11, 1880
Creator:
Sabin, Chauncey Brewer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coach and Car Step.
Patent for an attached coach and car step "to render it unnecessary to carry stools or stepping-boxes, as are now used to facilitate passengers to get on or off the car or coach from an extra height between the ground or depot-floor and the main bottom tread of the step, thus avoiding dangerous and fatal results from overturning of stools and boxes." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Taylor, Frederick A.; Farrell, Patrick W. & Quebe, Wesley S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for "improvements in locks, having special reference to locks for the doors of freight-cars; and it has for its object to provide a strong lock so constructed as to be comparatively safe from the attacks of lockpickers" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 11, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transplanter.
Patent for a machine that transplants small plants while avoiding "clogging of the mud in soft soil" (line 20). It has a cylindrical cutter and a cylindrical plunger that fits just inside it. The plunger is usually away from the base of the cutter, and an adjustable rod extends from the plunger.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Harris, Hiram S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snath Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved snath fastener. This design "relates to devices for attaching scythes to their handles; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same" (lines 17-20).
Date:
April 11, 1882
Creator:
Schultze, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sleeping-Car
Patent for a combined train car that can "be adapted for day use a parlor or chair car, and may be readily converted into a sleeping-car with independent state-rooms, thus insuring privacy and comfort to passengers" (lines 16-20) thus saving achieving maximum efficiency of space.
Date:
September 11, 1888
Creator:
Tull, Shalis Francis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Weed-Burner
Patent for "a railroad weed-burning device in which a large sheet-iron shield is suspended underneath and between the trucks of any ordinary railroad car for the purpose of confining the flame and heat produced by oil-atomizing burners or other means to direct and maintain continued contact with grass and weeds on the ground between and along the outside of the rails" (lines 9-18).
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Hancock, Geroge A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abdominal Supporter.
Patent for a new and improved supporter for the abdomen during pregnancy. This design "consists of an abdominal sack for the support of the abdomen in pregnancy, which is contrived with supporting-bands adapted for supporting it from the shoulders of the wearer, where the weight can be best sustained, and so as to entirely avoid the belt commonly used, and thus relieve the stomach and liver from the pressure and irritation which it produces" (lines 7-15).
Date:
September 11, 1883
Creator:
Galney, Augustus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1860
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 11, 1860
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 1860
Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 11, 1860
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History