An Archaeological Survey of Drainage Improvements Along South Nolan Creek, Bell County, Texas (open access)

An Archaeological Survey of Drainage Improvements Along South Nolan Creek, Bell County, Texas

An archaeological Survey with the intent to make channel improvements along the banks of South Nolan Creek from Fort Hood Road to 28th street in Killeen, Texas
Date: March 21, 2008
Creator: Todd, Jesse
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beehive. (open access)

Beehive.

Patent for a beehive that is meant "to provide for the ready or convenient "robbing" of the hive without subjecting the bees to injury , as experienced in the old way, by smoking the bees out of the hive" (lines 16-20).
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Hawkins, Jackson D. & Ray, Francis M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the combination, with the follower, the right-and-left-screw, and nuts, of the hinged levers and the bars swiveled thereto; also, in the combination . . . of the slotted bars, the hinged socket, and the swiveled arms; also, in the combination, with the nuts having shoulders and the hinged levers having forked up ends, of the anti-friction rollers journaled in recesses in the said nuts; also . . . of the curved and flattened swiveled arms, whereby the lower ends of the said follower-bars can have a lateral movement" (lines 23-38).
Date: March 21, 1882
Creator: Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History