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Burkburnett 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:
1918
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckburnett 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:
1918
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville 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:
1914
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barwise School 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:
1918
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Addington 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:
1916
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Dr. Joseph Pound from Mittie Pound Sorrell, August 31, 1911]
Letter to Dr. Joseph Pound from Mittie Pound Sorrell in Russell, Oklahoma concerning life on their land and saying their crop yield should be good after the rain they had: "Our cotton looks good if nothing happens..." She says that "Jake and I joined the M. E. church all the children went in with the Baptist."
Date:
August 31, 1911
Creator:
Sorrell, Mittie Pound
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Natural Gas Resources of Parts of North Texas
Article about Natural Gas Reserves production and Consumption in Dallas, Fort Worth in Texas
Date:
February 1916
Creator:
Shaw, E. W. (Eugene Wesley) & Matson, George Charlton
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Gage.
Patent for a water-gage measuring the height or volume of water in a steam boiler, particularly those "held closed by the weight of the operating handle" (lines 11-12). The device is designed for simple manufacture and easy assembly & disassembly without tools, and features a valve seat that stays in place, illustrations included.
Date:
December 30, 1919
Creator:
Leidecker, Helmoth M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen
Patent for a well screen which allows water to flow through easily while stopping any other items from going through into the well.
Date:
November 8, 1910
Creator:
Decker, Harry R. & Houk, Russell W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger
Patent for an improved post-hole digger/auger with multiple blades that cut in a spiral pattern and has the blades adjust and lock on the base. The blade shanks form a cage and keeps dirt from clogging the blades.
Date:
May 22, 1915
Creator:
Hoover, Orville M. & Ardery, Sarah, J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Means for Vehicle Axle Suspension.
Patent for a more resilient vehicle axle suspension and created specifically for motor vehicles.
Date:
June 22, 1915
Creator:
Guthrie, Nehemiah & Johnson, Callender L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage Burning Furnace
Patent for a new and useful garbage burning furnace that burns garbage efficiently in a combustion chamber. Illustrations are included.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Stokes, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Tie
Patent for a new design of railroad-ties meant "for clamping together the two members of the tie and for adjusting them relatively to each other so as to adapt them to clamp rails of different widths" (lines 13-16), with illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1913
Creator:
Grant, James K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer.
Patent for Draft Equalizer. Patent states this invention "relates to the new and useful improvements in draft-equalizers" (lines 10-11). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1918
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J. & Bryant, Marvin H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History