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Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil
Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 24, 1912
Creator:
Kunkel, Albert R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Murray, Joel S. & Scarborough, Ezem H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Base for Columns
Patent for a base for columns which drains water away from the base.
Date:
September 20, 1910
Creator:
Riley, Samuel L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1900
Creator:
Meier, Hermann
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator. This invention consists of a plurality of spring teeth or blades. Illustration included.
Date:
February 26, 1907
Creator:
Omberg, Niles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Oiler
Patent for an automatic oiler for railroad cars.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Adams, Richard Field
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.
Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Dukesmith, Frank H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator with adjustable teeth positions to allow for variation in distance between rows or different types of crops.
Date:
March 26, 1907
Creator:
Vance, Sidney, F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil
Patent for an apparatus for burning crude oil in stoves.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Kunkel, Albert R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date:
August 31, 1909
Creator:
Mosher, Benjamin E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Attachment.
Patent for a boiler attachment to regulate the boiler feed pump.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Morris, Gid M. & Watkins, J. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch
Patent for an automatic switch for railroad tracks.
Date:
May 2, 1911
Creator:
Pickle, Voyl C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Reel.
Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the cutting-board with two standards, whereby the said cutting-board is made to act as a sufficient brace for the frame, as well as to perform the offices of a cutting board. The invention also consists in means for producing a variable tension on the cloth as it passes from the roll to the reel, whereby the tendency of different thicknesses of cloth to wind the cloth in greater or lesser lengths than the register indicates is compensated for and corrected" (lines 27-39).
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Peters, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Washington Pounders by "having a series of concentric cones between the sides of which communication is had through apertures to carry away steam, and affords a suitable circulation of the water and air through the clothes." (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 15, 1896
Creator:
Toler, Henry Wilson.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat.
Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Meier, Hermann
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blow-Off Cock and Fire-Extinguisher
Patent for "a new and improved blow-off cock and fire-extinguisher to be used on locomotives for cleaning the boiler, and at the same time serving to sprinkle wooden structures in the track, such as bridges, railroad-ties, trestles, &c., to prevent their being set on fire by falling cinders discharged from the ash-pan of the locomotive or from other causes" (lines 8-16)
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Michell, Lucius E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Distilling Wood.
Patent for improvements in wood distillers "wherein the liquids of the woods are extracted by subjection in a closed heated chamber or retort and carried by vaporization through the process of distillation to condensation" (lines 18-22).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Spangler, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester
Patent for "new and useful improvements to cotton harvesters" (lines 5-6) with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
July 6, 1883
Creator:
Myers, John & Meyers, John Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Barrel.
Patent for a winding mechanism for watches, related to the barrel and rachet of the winding mechanism, with illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
November 5, 1880
Creator:
Martin, Josiah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6187
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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Pipelines subject to taxation in and for Anderson County Levee Improvement District No. One.
Date:
October 1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1418
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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does Article 13a, Section 1 of the Charter of Palestine, Texas, prohibit the sale of beer outside the area as zoned by said Section of the Charter?
Date:
August 17, 1962
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Houston County, Block 1
Parent map for Houston County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:27,500.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Anderson County, Block 7
Parent map for Anderson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History