Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for a triangle shaped cultivator with removable mold-boards that can be used as a plow and scraper, including illustration.
Date: May 10, 1859
Creator: Doss, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Sewing-Machines.

Patent for improvement in sewing-machines by using two cams, one to operate the needle-arm and another to operate the feed and shuttle movements, illustration is included.
Date: November 15, 1859
Creator: Singer, E. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers. (open access)

Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers.

Patent for the "improvement in supplying air to furnaces on steamers" (lines 5-6), including illustration.
Date: December 20, 1859
Creator: Brandy, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions. (open access)

Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.

Patent for a new piano-forte action made of sheet-metal, including illustrations.
Date: April 1, 1879
Creator: Roedern, George O. V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions. (open access)

Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.

Patent for a new piano forte design which "consists in certain novel details of construction, arrangement, and combination of the key-lever and its fulcrum and rest, a receiving-lever, a transmitting-eccentric, a secondary hammer, a principal hammer and its rest, and a damper-action and its connections, whereby greater simplicity and efficiency are obtained" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1879
Creator: Roedern, George O. V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas] Typical Curves of Precipitation

Series of three graphs demarcating the average rainfall per month for specific Texas cities across different regions of the state. Some lines are marked in red to distinguish individual points.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Technical Drawing
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a gate that is "a structure hanging and sliding by means of rollers on an inclined cross-bar, and so connected by ropes and pulleys to stationary posts that a person approaching it on horseback or in a vehicle may easily open the gate (without dismounting) by pulling the rope, and on releasing the rope the gate will close automatically" (lines 12-19); illustration is included.
Date: March 3, 1891
Creator: Smith, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for a new and improved lock which includes "certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangement of parts" (lines 11-13) as well as illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Peterson, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing-Case. (open access)

Packing-Case.

Patent for new and improved shipping case to store and transport oysters so that they may be surrounded by ice in travel and not be subjected to a great amount of pressure or damaged during transit.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Clement, Thomas Houlten, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll Weevil Exterminator

Patent for a boll weevil exterminator. This invention is designed to remove boll weevils from cotton plants and crushing them between rollers. Illustration included.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Meeks, William & Brown, Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine. (open access)

Sewing-Machine.

Patent for a sewing machine "which will cut or trim the edges of two pieces of cloth during the time that said edges are being stitched together by the needle" (lines 15-18) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: Singer, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for an improved wrench.
Date: February 20, 1917
Creator: Hamlett, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow that has functional improvements in plows.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Fudge, Henry E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a new and useful improvement in cultivators for the ground working elements.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Kendall, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Gate. (open access)

Automatic Train-Gate.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in automatic train gates" (lines 5-7) including illustrations.
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: Ivanhoe, George. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sorghum Cutter. (open access)

Sorghum Cutter.

Patent for a machine to cut sorghum and similar standing crops
Date: December 16, 1919
Creator: Drgac, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4201 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4201

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: 1. Does the delinquent tax contract, entered into by Calhoun County and a delinquent tax attorney, include, within its terms and provisions, the collection of drainage district taxes? 2. Was the Commissioners Court of Calhoun County authorized to enter into a contract for the collection of delinquent drainage district taxes?
Date: November 7, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6014 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6014

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: Clarification of Sea Cell Remission Acts, granting remission of taxes to City of Port Lavaca and to Calhoun County.
Date: May 18, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5915 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5915

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: Validity of sale by Commissioner of the General land Office of 5420 acres of land in Calhoun, County Texas, known as Green Lake, and jurisdiction of Game, Fish & Oyster Commission in relation thereto.
Date: September 21, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Keller Bay 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: 1951
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tivoli Southeast 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: 1952
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Austwell 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 1:24000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Beeville

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 1:250000
Date: 1953
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bloomington Southwest 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 1:24000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History