Texas real estate 1985 (open access)

Texas real estate 1985

This report provides predictions for the real estate industry in Texas up to 1985.
Date: September 1976
Creator: Texas A & M University. Texas Real Estate Research Center.
System: The Portal to Texas History
America Joins a Metric World (open access)

America Joins a Metric World

Pamphlet issued by the United States National Bureau of Standards discussing the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, the work of the U.S. Metric Board, and how government agencies are facilitating a switch to the metric system.
Date: February 1976
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brief History of Measurement Systems: with a Chart of the Modernized Metric System (open access)

Brief History of Measurement Systems: with a Chart of the Modernized Metric System

Pamphlet issued by the United States National Bureau of Standards providing an overview of the English system of measurement used in the United States and of the metric system. The internal pages of the pamphlet contain a chart labeled "The Modernized Metric System" which includes tables of common conversions and a chart of the seven base units: meter/length, kilogram/mass, second/time, ampere/electric current, kelvin/temperature, mole/amount of substance, and candela/luminous intensity, as well as two supplementary units: radian/plane angle and steradian/solid angle. There is also a graphic representation of yards versus meters in ruler form at the bottom.
Date: August 1976
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
System: The UNT Digital Library
What About Metric? (open access)

What About Metric?

Pamphlet issued by the United States National Bureau of Standards discussing the reasons that the U.S. decided passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 and provides tables, illustrations, and formulas for converting between customary units and metric units of measuring weight, length, volume, and temperature. It also includes a discussion of how one might expect to use metric measurements in the marketplace, in the home, and at work.
Date: October 1976
Creator: Barbrow, Louis E. & Halpin, Suellen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fastest Gun in the West, Vulcan (open access)

The Fastest Gun in the West, Vulcan

Graphic pamphlet about a new automatic weapons system designed to shoot down enemy planes in low altitudes. Includes information about the weapon, how to use it, a condition table, and more.
Date: 1976
Creator: United States. Department of the Army. Army Air Defense School.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vacation Water-Fun (open access)

Vacation Water-Fun

"Water safety rules presented in the form of short poems written by schoolchildren and illustrated by David Cunningham, an illustrator employed by Bureau of Reclamation Region 7 who signed his name as 'CunningHAM.' There is a recurring character shaped like a safety pin, but with human face, hair, and limbs" - from UNT Government Comics LibGuide
Date: 1976
Creator: United States. Bureau of Reclamation.
System: The UNT Digital Library