85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1709, Chapter 407 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1709, Chapter 407

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to procedures for the dissolution of the Bois D'Arc Island Levee Improvement District of Dallas and Kaufman Counties.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pedal Attachment for Velocipedes. (open access)

Pedal Attachment for Velocipedes.

Patent for a new and useful safety attachment “for the pedals of bicycles, tricycles, and other wheeled vehicles operated by the feet through the medium of pedals.” (Lines 9-11) This attachment will form a long bearing for the foot of the rider, thus avoiding dead-centers in the revolutions of the cranks, and to provide means for preventing any slipping of the pedals.” (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Wheeler, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Wrench. (open access)

Combination-Wrench.

Patent for a combination wrench that combines a sliding-jaw wrench with a tallow box, hammer, nail claw, horseshoe-pick, plow-paddle, and screwdriver.
Date: December 1, 1885
Creator: McKenzie, Winfield S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoke and Cinder Conductor. (open access)

Smoke and Cinder Conductor.

Patent for a new and improved smoke and cinder conductor. This design "has for its object to provide a simple and efficient conducting mechanism to be attached to the cars, and provided with an improved coupling device at its ends, by which a coupling can be automatically effected with the conducting mechanism of an adjoining car" (lines 11-17).
Date: May 1, 1883
Creator: Brown, William A. & Smith, James F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History