Rogers Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1976
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Little River Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Holland Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Salado Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1979
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Youngsport Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1979
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ding Dong Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1979
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Briggs Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1979
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Westphalia Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1990
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Bell County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Bell County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Bell County, Texas.
Date: 1977
Creator: Huckabee. John W.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Bell County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:253,440.
Date: 1977
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 495, Chapter 1198 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 495, Chapter 1198

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the student enrollment required for the operation of Texas A&M University--Central Texas as an independent general academic teaching institution.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Medical Compound. (open access)

Improved Medical Compound.

Patent for improvements in medical compound.
Date: January 7, 1868
Creator: Taylor, Daniel W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Current-Wheels. (open access)

Improvement in Current-Wheels.

Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: June 6, 1871
Creator: Tuder, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reversible Axle-Skeins. (open access)

Improvement in Reversible Axle-Skeins.

Patent for improvements in reversible axle skeins: "My invention consists of cast mental axle skeins fitted on the axles, whether of wood or iron, so that they can be turned from time to time, as they wear away, to remove the worn place from the wearing position and bring a part not worn thereto." (lines 5-10).
Date: April 16, 1872
Creator: Smith, Andrew F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Corn-Shellers. (open access)

Improvements in Corn-Shellers.

Patent for an improved "Combined Corn Husker, Sheller, and Cleaner" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Creekmore, Hiram C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Riding-Saddles. (open access)

Improvements in Riding-Saddles.

Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
Date: June 10, 1873
Creator: Hamil, Robert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments (open access)

Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments

Patent for the improvement in Steam Wash-Boiler Attachments.
Date: February 11, 1873
Creator: Hart, Richard B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for an improved design of the rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date: February 6, 1877
Creator: Willson, Hodgen I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for a new improvement in agricultural plows that will not clog when used with sticky prairie-soil, including illustration.
Date: January 27, 1874
Creator: Ford, Isaac M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators.

Patent for a new improvement in combined plows, planters, and cultivators, including illustration.
Date: February 24, 1874
Creator: Urban, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press (open access)

Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press

Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date: February 23, 1875
Creator: Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in corn-planters. (open access)

Improvement in corn-planters.

Patent for an "improvement upon the planter described in Patent No. 8,408" (paragraph 3). The movement of a horse's shoulders causes vibrations that power a cropper-slide. Includes illustration.
Date: August 1, 1876
Creator: Meeks, Nathan H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Augers. (open access)

Earth-Augers.

Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design calls for "a hinged door having its edge folded or bent to form an air-tube . . . [and] a pair of hemi-cylindrical doors having on one or both an air duct or ducts," as well as interchangeable bits with a shouldered and threaded shank and a nut combined and arranged in a novel way (paras. 12-15).
Date: October 30, 1877
Creator: Fields, Daniel G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists, [primarily], of certain devices whereby the coupling-pin raised in the draw-head is supported until the draw-heads strike each other in coupling, when the coupling-pin falls by gravity" (lines 17-21).
Date: November 15, 1881
Creator: Thomason, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History