Railway Signaling Mechanism (open access)

Railway Signaling Mechanism

Patent for a railway signaling mechanism. This invention "relates to certain new and useful improvements in electric railway and block signaling in which means are provided for indicating in the engine cab to the engineer the condition of the road ahead" (lines 9-13). Illustrations included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Adams, Edwin Johnson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

ACIR (Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations) Home Page

The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) is a permanent, independent, bipartisan intergovernmental agency established by Public Law 86-380 in 1959. As it was established, ACIR's mission is:To strengthen the American federal system and improve the ability of federal, state, and local governments to work together cooperatively, efficiently, and effectively.
Date: May 15, 1996
Creator: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Program and Administrative Activities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation (open access)

Review of Program and Administrative Activities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation

Report on the activities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation from 1977-1978 for Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, from the United States General Accounting Office.
Date: December 15, 1977
Creator: Ahart, Gregory J.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ex-Im Bank: No Quorum, No Problem? (open access)

Ex-Im Bank: No Quorum, No Problem?

This report discusses the operation on a limited basis of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) despite a renewal of its general statutory charter through FY2019 (P.L. 114-94,
Date: September 15, 2016
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recommendations for exploration drilling, Lower Wild Horse Point, San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah (open access)

Recommendations for exploration drilling, Lower Wild Horse Point, San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah

The purpose of the investigation was to locate new uranium ore deposits and sites which are favorable for exploration drilling.
Date: December 15, 1952
Creator: Akright, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Uranium Potential in Selected Pennsylvanian and Permian Units and Igneous Rocks in Southwestern and Southern Oklahoma: Enclosures for Final Report (open access)

Evaluation of Uranium Potential in Selected Pennsylvanian and Permian Units and Igneous Rocks in Southwestern and Southern Oklahoma: Enclosures for Final Report

This document consists of maps evaluating selected parts in Pennsylvania and rocks in Oklahoma.
Date: June 15, 1977
Creator: Al-Shaieb, Zuhair; Shelton, John W.; Donovan, R. Nowell; Hanson, Richard E. & May, Richard T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Uranium Potential in Selected Pennsylvanian and Permian Units and Igneous Rocks in Southwestern and Southern Oklahoma: Final Report (open access)

Evaluation of Uranium Potential in Selected Pennsylvanian and Permian Units and Igneous Rocks in Southwestern and Southern Oklahoma: Final Report

Introduction: The areas of study include parts of the Wichita uplift, Arbuckle uplift, Hunton-Pauls Valley uplift, Central Oklahoma platform, Muenster-Waurika arch, and Anadarko basin (Fig. 1.1-1). Rocks examined include the Precambrian granite of the Arbuckle uplift, Cambrian igneous rocks of the Wichita uplift, and Pennsylvanian-Permian sedimentary rocks derived in large part from those two uplifts and, to a lesser extent, from the Ouachita system.
Date: June 15, 1977
Creator: Al-Shaieb, Zuhair; Shelton, John W.; Donovan, R. Nowell; Hanson, Richard E. & May, Richard T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Research Section Progress Report for January 1950 (open access)

Chemical Research Section Progress Report for January 1950

The following documents are progress reports that follow chemical research studies in subjects such as ruthenium tetroxile distillations, extraction-scrub studies of zirconium and niobium, and oxidation of plutonium and stabilization of plutonium(VI) during extraction of IAF solutions.
Date: February 15, 1950
Creator: Albaugh, F. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvement in Seed-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for improvement of planters.
Date: February 15, 1876
Creator: Albertson, Ichabod H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Journal Boxes. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Journal Boxes.

Patent for the improvement in car-journal boxes. This invention "relates to oil-boxes used upon journals of car-axles, the object being to prevent the lid from shaking off of the oil-stop or oil-packing surrounding the axle to be removed and replaced by a new one without removing the box from the journal."
Date: October 15, 1878
Creator: Alexander, Francis M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter. (open access)

Telephone-Transmitter.

Patent for "a simple transmitter in which the greatest volume of sound may be transmitted without causing grating or rattling." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1897
Creator: Alexander, Horace C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for the improvement of cultivators using adjustable blades and is adaptable to use different types of blades for a variety of other uses, including illustration.
Date: January 15, 1861
Creator: Alexander, J. T. D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Environmental Exemptions for the Navy's Mid-Frequency Active Sonar Training Program (open access)

Environmental Exemptions for the Navy's Mid-Frequency Active Sonar Training Program

This report discusses laws related to the protection of marine mammals when using mid-frequency active sonar including the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA). The report discusses each of the laws generally, and then reviews the litigation surrounding the Navy's compliance with these laws in the context of using the sonar for training purposes off California's coast.
Date: April 15, 2008
Creator: Alexander, Kristina
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Ore and Pulp Sampler (open access)

Automatic Ore and Pulp Sampler

Patent for a automatic ore and pulp sampler. This invention represents a settling tank to accumulate particles. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Ore And Slime Separator (open access)

Automatic Ore And Slime Separator

Patent for a automatic ore and slime separator. This invention is designed to separate the sand and other solid particles from water. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Silt And Sand Separator. (open access)

Automatic Silt And Sand Separator.

Patent for an automatic silt and sand separator that settles and discharges sand, slimes and any foreign matters.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slime Separator and Classifier (open access)

Slime Separator and Classifier

Patent for a pulp separator and classifying apparatus. Illustrations included.
Date: February 15, 1910
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neutron Diffraction Studies at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center (open access)

Neutron Diffraction Studies at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center

A neutron diffraction program was initiated recently at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center. The two double crystal spectrometers in use were assembled with the aid of staff members of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The first research problem to be completed was a single crystal structure analysis of CaWO4. Choosing the origin at the 4(a) tungsten site in the tetragonal I41/a cell. the 16(f) oxygen parameters were found to be as follows: x=0.2413 ± 0.0005, y=0.1511 ± 0.0006, z=0.0861 ± 0.0001. Anisotropic temperature parameters were also determined for all atoms in the least squares analysis of the structure. The magnetic structure of CuSO4 has been determined in a continuation of a study started at Brookhaven in collaboration with Dr. P.J. Brown. Using the Wollan-Koehler-Bertaut notation, the antiferromagnetic spin ordering mode in the orthorhombic Pbnm cell is Ax, with the spin axis parallel to a. A moment of approximately 1 μB was found for the Cu2_ ion. The crystal structure of BaNiO2 was re-examined in a neutron powder diffraction study, and it was found that the earlier x-ray study of Lander is essentially correct. An alternative oxygen arrangement, for which x-rays would not have been very sensitive, had been suspected. BaNiO2 was …
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Almodovar, I; Bielen, H. J. & Frazer, B. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amarillo College Requests for Legislative Appropriations: 1996 and 1997 (open access)

Amarillo College Requests for Legislative Appropriations: 1996 and 1997

Report submitted by Amarillo College to the Texas 73rd regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund programming and activities. It includes an overview of the institution's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, and supporting documentation.
Date: July 15, 1994
Creator: Amarillo College
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.

Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 15, 1878
Creator: Ames, Theodore George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Digger. (open access)

Peanut Digger.

Patent for new and useful improvements to a machine for harvesting or digging peanuts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Amos, Thomas E. & Abernathy, George J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Line. (open access)

Clothes-Line.

Patent for Clothes-Line that is to supply an endless amount of clothesline in order to facilitate easy placement and/or removal of clothing from the line.
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Anderson, Chester A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Chloroplast Reactions and Plant Metabolism (open access)

Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Chloroplast Reactions and Plant Metabolism

This technical report represents a brief survey of work by this project on the effects of ultraviolet radiation (UV) on certain of the photochemical and metabolic properties of rhubarb chard and sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). These plants were selected for this work because for some years they have been used as sources of chloroplasts for Hill reaction studies in this laboratory. Some of this work has appeared as a brief paper.
Date: June 15, 1955
Creator: Anderson, Donald R.; Spikes, John D. & Mayne, Berger C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvement in Brooms. (open access)

Improvement in Brooms.

Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Anderson, Edward Americus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History