78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 111 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 111

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Rochelle M. Grisafi on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 114 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 114

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Shawne Briggs on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 115 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 115

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Kristy Muckleroy on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 116 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 116

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Karla Bevel on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 117 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 117

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Shaneeka Shannon on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 118 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 118

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Keith Haliburton on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 119 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 119

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Tonya Allen on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 120 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 120

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Paulino Rosales, III on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 121 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 121

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Sedonia L. Johnson on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 122 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 122

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Andrea Curley Harper on being named a 2002-2003 Outstanding Teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 234, Chapter 4 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 234, Chapter 4

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the appointment of grand jury bailiffs in Tarrant County.
Date: April 27, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device (open access)

Advertising Device

Patent for an Advertising Device. This device provides "a series of hinged leaves so mounted that those exposed to view have the experience of being part of a book." (lines 14-17). "A further object is to provide means which will conceal the operating mechanism, and mystify the observer" (lines 23-25), with a "supporting structure and a dummy provided with a movable hand...for turning said movable shaft as the leaves are turned" (lines 3-13).
Date: April 6, 1912
Creator: Friedman, Bernard Z.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device (open access)

Advertising Device

Patent for an advertising device meant to sit on a desk as a ruler. This device is designed to make the images on its surface appear to be suspended in air when it is lifted. It can be manufactured cheaply and is intended to be distributed for free as both a ruler and advertisement.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Glisson, Amos Adolphus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Machine (open access)

Advertising-Machine

Patent for an advertising machine for displaying various advertising cards in a motorized machine that displays all the different cards as it goes around in a circle.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Helm, Virgil L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Ship (open access)

Aerial Ship

Patent for "a ship for navigating the air, which shall be almost or quite as easily governed and controlled as regards its course of travel, irrespective of the direction of the wind and in other respects, as a ship provided with propelling means, used to sail in or through the water" (lines 9-15).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Riddle, William Nelson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifreezing Valve and Closet-Cistern (open access)

Antifreezing Valve and Closet-Cistern

Patent for "valves which will allow all the water to flow out of the popes to a position below freezing-point after each application of water, whether the water is used in a closet-cistern or drawn out of a hudrant or other application is made, and to arrange the valves so that the supply-valves will be automatically closed by water-pressure in connection with the operation of a siphon in a closet-cistern and the waste-valve will be closed by the pressure of water, siphonic action, or both, when the supply-valves are opened." (lines 18-28).
Date: April 23, 1901
Creator: Wilkes, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Canning Fruits or Vegetables. (open access)

Apparatus for Canning Fruits or Vegetables.

Patent for an improvement to canning fruits and vegetables.
Date: April 3, 1900
Creator: Compton, Anna & Jackson, A. L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Machine for Forming Plastic Bodies (open access)

Automatic Machine for Forming Plastic Bodies

Patent for a machine which quickly and automatically forms plastic bodies and blocks when fed the material. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Burton, Luther L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatically-Operated Gate and Door (open access)

Automatically-Operated Gate and Door

Patent for improvements on automatically opened doors and gates for vehicular passing. The improvements will allow the automatic opening of gates and doors without human attention or interference.
Date: April 9, 1921
Creator: Brown, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for improvements in baling presses "in which the necessary motion may be imparted to the plunger in a rapid and effective manner, and which shall be productive of considerable saving of labor and power" (lines 15-19)
Date: April 29, 1890
Creator: Anderson, Zachariah J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Support. (open access)

Bicycle-Support.

Patent for a bicycle support which holds "bicycles in upright position when not in use" (lines 8-9).
Date: April 17, 1900
Creator: Taylor, James P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer (open access)

Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer

Patent for
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: John S. Doak & Alexander G. Farrington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brick-Truck (open access)

Brick-Truck

Patent for improvements in trucks for carrying bricks.
Date: April 16, 1889
Creator: Weekes, John William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Door. (open access)

Car Door.

Patent for a new and improved door for railroad cars. This design consists in "a car having a door-opening, top and bottom tracks, and perpendicular door-posts, one post provided with a series of recesses in its side next to the opening and the other having recesses in its outer side or side nearest the end of the car . . . the door sliding on said tracks and having forwardly-projecting cleats on its front edge to enter the recesses in the first-named post, and provided on its inner side at its opposite end with cleats projecting toward its front edge to enter the recesses in second-named strip" (lines 83-95).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Goelet, Edward B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History