Improvement in Horse-Powers. (open access)

Improvement in Horse-Powers.

Patent for new improvement in the construction of horse-powers for cotton-gins and other machinery, including illustration.
Date: February 17, 1874
Creator: Landes, Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shot-Canister (open access)

Shot-Canister

Patent for "to provide a revolving case having a series of annularly or otherwise located compartments formed of transparent material and adapted for the reception of shot of dierent grades; to provide means for delivering the shot from the compartments and also for gaging the same before and after delivery" (lines 13-20).
Date: September 17, 1889
Creator: Harigel, Amil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sad-Iron Heater. (open access)

Sad-Iron Heater.

Patent for sad iron heaters: "a device for heating sad irons, and it has for its object to provide a heater adapted to receive a plurality of irons" (lines 8-11).
Date: April 17, 1894
Creator: Lee, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-257 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-257

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Length of time ballots must remain in the ballot boxes following special road tax and county fund reallocation elections in Austin County.
Date: June 17, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History