Attachment For Surveying Instruments (open access)

Attachment For Surveying Instruments

Patent for attachment for surveying instruments. Illustrations included.
Date: September 6, 1904
Creator: Armstrong, Edward R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Harrow and Roller (open access)

Combined Harrow and Roller

Patent for a combined harrow and roller for pulverizing and eliminating unwanted growth from the ground. Illustrations included.
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Younger, Walter E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter (open access)

Carbureter

Patent for a carburetor to be used on internal combustion engines. Illustrations included.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Kingsbury, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Granular Materials (open access)

Apparatus for Treating Granular Materials

Patent for an apparatus for treating granular materials. Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Lanaux, Alfred A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Core-Drill. (open access)

Core-Drill.

Patent for a core drill for making bore holes in rocks to get out solid samples of the inside of rocks, which has an improved grabbing method for retrieving the piece of rock inside the hole.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: McLoughlin, Malacha J. & Wynn, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Chair and Ironing Board (open access)

Combination Chair and Ironing Board

Patent for a chair that can fold and act as an ironing board. Illustration included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Hufft, Rose; Harrell, Cullen Carr & Hufft, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese-Cutting Gage. (open access)

Cheese-Cutting Gage.

Letter Patent for gage "for cutting articles in bulk, such as whole cheese" (lines 9-10); including illustration and instructions
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Pittman, J. P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate or Box. (open access)

Crate or Box.

Patent for "a crate or box of knockdown form consisting of a crate or box made of separable sections and bound together by wires and stay-bolts that are loosely set into the sections" (line 11-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 26, 1905
Creator: Hines, Warren H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Truck Bolster (open access)

Car Truck Bolster

Patent for a car-truck bolster. The design improves upon existing versions to bolster a car or truck in order to readily makes repairs in a simple and expeditious manner. The bolster can be taken apart which allows for each part to be replaced separately.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Fowler, T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic And Continuous Film Distillation Apparatus. (open access)

Automatic And Continuous Film Distillation Apparatus.

Patent for Automatic film distillation apparatus.
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Clemenger, F. J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bearing for Driving and Other Shafts. (open access)

Bearing for Driving and Other Shafts.

Patent for a bearing or other driving shafts which can be easily removed without harming the rest of the machine. Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1908
Creator: Wiggs, James A., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Support (open access)

Bicycle Support

Patent for a bicycle support, which can be attached to different bicycles and carried in the pocket.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Moss, Eric
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bandage. (open access)

Bandage.

Patent for bandage that prevents and/or reduces the occurrence of "double chin."
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Hardee, Virginia E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Butt-Cutter (open access)

Butt-Cutter

Patent for a machine designed to cut off the butt ends of cereal sheaves should they become wet or muddy. Illustrations included.
Date: February 16, 1909
Creator: Janes, Ivey & Lanaux, Alfred A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Craft Propeller (open access)

Air-Craft Propeller

Patent for an air craft propeller that reduces air resistance.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Koiw, Julius
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome (open access)

Aerodrome

Patent for an aerodrome. Illustrations included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Mayhew, Nathaniel L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing Spear (open access)

Casing Spear

Patent for casing spears. This invention is designed for pulling well tubes or casings that have broken off out of the well. Illustration included.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Carroll, Monroe W. & Johnston, H. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cistern. (open access)

Cistern.

Patent for a rain cistern, which can have oil put in it to prevent rust and sends out dirt from the cistern if it overflows.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Fischer, Christian
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer (open access)

Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer

This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improved car couplings "of the Janney type, capable of readily coupling on short curved, and adapted to be either coupled or uncoupled without going between cars. A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the parts may be readily set for automatic coupling, or to prevent coupling." (Lines 13-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Armstrong, James P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 868, Chapter 1009 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 868, Chapter 1009

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the establishment of a Center for Excellence in Deaf Studies and Deaf Education at Lamar University.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3634, Chapter 771 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3634, Chapter 771

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the name and powers of the Jefferson County Waterway and Navigation District.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: MS-8 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: MS-8

Letter opinion 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, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of House Concurrent Resolution 24 of 53rd Legislature that no statute of limitation shall bar the claim of Mr. R. E. Cowan against Jefferson County for the balance of his 1933 salary as District Clerk of Jefferson County.
Date: March 11, 1953
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-386 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-386

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of Article 5142, Vernon's Civil Statutes.
Date: February 4, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History