Lamp. (open access)

Lamp.

Patent for improvements to headlight lamps used in locomotives, with illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1897
Creator: Pitts, William Wirt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support. (open access)

Tongue Support.

Patent for a new and improved tongue-support. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive tongue-support capable of being readily applied to any vehicle" (lines 9-12). It "consist[s] of the two wires provided intermediate their ends with coils and twisted together at opposite sides of the coils to provide the spring-arms" (lines 48-51).
Date: October 25, 1892
Creator: Johnson, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-387 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-387

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May lateral road construction in Hill County be superintended by a non-graduate engineer?
Date: February 25, 1939
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1904
Creator: Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History