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Cash-Box
Patent for "a device adapted for persons making a great number of small collections, such as railway conductors" (lines 8-10).
Date:
March 4, 1902
Creator:
Peetz, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom
Patent for an apparatus for expressing the fluids out of paraffin compositions and separating the scale therefrom. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 4, 1913
Creator:
Hansen, Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device
Patent for an amusement device. This invention uses a ballast and simulates the appearance and motion of a floating ship under way. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Corneliussen, Ivar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Carriage and Protector.
Patent for a new and improved mobile bookcase. This design is "composed of a base-piece having a longitudinally-central raised table-piece adapted to support the leaves of the book, and a depressed-ledge portion outside thereof adapted to support the cover of the book" (lines 20-25).
Date:
March 19, 1889
Creator:
Leith, Lawrence C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clasp.
Patent for a new and improved clasp. This design "consist[s] of the front plate formed with the integral strap loop or slot at its upper end, the teeth at its lower end, and the opening above said teeth, the rear plate formed with integral teeth at its lower end, side ears at its upper end, and the lugs below said ears and projecting beyond the outer face of the plate, the spindle passing through the ears and provided with a spring throwing the plates apart, and the locking-plate pivoted at its upper end to the lugs and having a [different] lug projecting inward from said upper end" (lines 83-96).
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
Lewis, Annie
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
Blotter.
Patent for "a combined hand-blotter, ruler, paper-cutter, and pen-rack... especially for the use of book-keepers and accountants," (lines 12-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1891
Creator:
Betts, Walter & Herbert, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton.
Patent for an apparatus for handling lint-cotton that allows air to move freely without back pressure while putting the fiber into a bat. It has a "trunk into which a series of gins deliver, of a primary condenser having a high surface speed, so that it will rapidly remove the fiber and prevent the bat from building up of such thickness as to check the escape of air, and a second condenser having a slower surface speed and arranged to receive the lint from the first condenser and form it into a thicker bat" (lines 29-37).
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Campbell, Douglas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-405
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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Commissioner's Court of Galveston County is authorized to expend Seawall Funds (Permanent Improvement Funds) for the maintenance of the boulevard constructed on top of the Seawall in that area where the wall no longer serves as a protective work from the sea.
Date:
March 16, 1965
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1275
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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Game & Fish Commission has the authority to regulate the size of oysters to be taken from private oyster leases in Galveston and Chambers Counties and related question.
Date:
March 8, 1962
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1134
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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Jurisdiction of county courts at law in Galveston County.
Date:
March 13, 1978
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, 1998-1999
A continuation of the long-term monitoring of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary coral reef habitats, using a variety of methods to asses the changes in said reef communities.
Date:
March 2002
Creator:
Dokken, Quenton R.; MacDonald, Ian R.; Tunnell, John W., Jr.; Wade, Terry; Beaver, Carl R.; Childs, Susan A. et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Collapsible Rim.
Patent for a collapsible rim for wheels, particularly the wheels of motor vehicles, to provide ease in changing tires. Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date:
March 20, 1917
Creator:
Rogers, Francis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Engine Hood and Drain-Trough Therefor.
Patent for the creation of "an improved automobile hood and particularly drain trough" (lines 12-14) that have been adapted in order to reduce the risk of water leaking into the vehicle's engine.
Date:
March 30, 1920
Creator:
Stowe, George B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arrangement of Devices for Lowering and Detaching Boats.
Patent for "lowering and detaching life and other small boats from large ships" (lines 5-7), including illustration.
Date:
March 16, 1858
Creator:
De Veuve, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5927
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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the State Board of Control have authority to lease the Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital to the Federal Government for a venereal disease clinic?
Date:
March 21, 1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Saving Device.
Patent for a collapsible life-saving device that can be stored in little space on a ship or dock and unfolded quickly for use as a flotation device for several persons.
Date:
March 18, 1913
Creator:
Bradford, Thomas C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, 1975-79
Report on new water wells in Harris and Galveston Counties, with hydrologic data, location, completion, logs, levels, and chemical quality.
Date:
March 1984
Creator:
Ratzlaff, Karl W.; Bonnet, C. W. & Coplin, L. S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analysis of Ground Water in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, 1970-74
Report documenting data collected regarding wells in Harris and Galveston Counties, including results of chemical analyses.
Date:
March 1976
Creator:
Naftel, W. L.; Vaught, Kenneth & Fleming, Bobbie
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Environmental Assessment: Construction of Direct Connectors
Report on the environmental assessment of a proposed road construction project.
Date:
March 2008
Creator:
Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Estimated Number of Dredge Tows Required to Detect Changes in Oyster Abundance in Galveston Bay
This report is about estimated number of Dredge Tows required to detect changes in Oyster abundance in Galveston Bay.
Date:
March 1986
Creator:
Matlock, Gary C. & Hofstetter, Robert P.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for an improved wrench that is effective and durable. Illustration and description included.
Date:
March 28, 1916
Creator:
Collier, Frank A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter Copying Press.
Patent for a new and improved copier. This design consists in "the combination of the dampening-roller . . . with the smoothing-roller at one side of and in close proximity to it and situated between said dampening-roller and the roll of paper, and the roller journaled in the standard, and the smoothing-rollers placed at one side and beyond the rollers . . . and journaled in brackets . . . whereby the paper is evenly and smoothly moistened before the copy-paper is applied and both are kept smooth during the process of copying" (lines 90-104).
Date:
March 12, 1889
Creator:
Thompson, Charles Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Construction.
Patent for window construction improvements to allow for construction of fireproof windows with fireproof sashes which are easily removable for repair or replacement. Improvements include method of securing glass in sashes without using putty, and sashes which will close automatically when subjected to "an unusually high temperature" (line 29).
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Miller, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History