Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustrations included.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Hendrix, James D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Device (open access)

Draft Device

Patent for a draft device for agricultural machines. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: Dowdy, Ewell Monroe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: Dowdy, Ewell Monroe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Robe For Invalids. (open access)

Bed-Robe For Invalids.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bed robes for invalids, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1900
Creator: Sims, Mary E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Counterbalancing Device for Pumps. (open access)

Counterbalancing Device for Pumps.

Patent for a counterbalancing device for windmill pumps, which reduces friction and lateral pull on the pump.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Cotten, Charles Kavendor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Gillespie, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Setting Machine (open access)

Axle-Setting Machine

Patent for a axle setting machine that can be used on any type of axle, has its own lever, and doesn't touch the inside of the axle collar.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Roberts, John William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding Hollow Concrete Walls (open access)

Apparatus for Molding Hollow Concrete Walls

Patent for an apparatus that is a mold for crafting hollow concrete walls. Illustration included.
Date: December 21, 1909
Creator: Nelson, William E.
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 "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Callaway, William H. & West, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Martin, David D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an animal trap meant to trap animals that burrow in the ground, such as prairie dogs. The trap catches the animal when it leaves its den and the animal cannot escape the trap.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Manning, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clutch Clamp. (open access)

Clutch Clamp.

Patent for a new and improved clutch-clamp. This design "is to provide a simple and effective device for lowering or hoisting the pipe or rods of pumps into bored wells or other places, such as mines or shafts, and without injury to the pipe or rod, such device being not only readily and easily handled in connecting it to or disconnecting it from the object to be raised or lowered, but capable of being manufactured at comparatively small cost" (lines 20-29).
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: McCoy, John William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3564, Chapter 179 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3564, Chapter 179

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the transfer of Angelo State University to the Texas Tech University System.
Date: May 23, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-690 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-690

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: Whether appropriated funds may be used for the purpose of subscribing to water service from the City of San Angelo to serve property occupied by the Department of Public Safety as a radio Station.
Date: August 19, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7469 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7469

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: Does the Junior College District which is co-extensive with the boundaries of Tom Green County have the authority to tax the intangible assets of railroad rolling stock?
Date: October 29, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6810 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6810

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: Maximum salary for the County Treasurer of Tom Green County for 1944 and 1945; employment of an assistant who is the treasurer's niece, and payment of salary to her.
Date: September 18, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Schleicher County, Block 4

Parent map for Schleicher 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: Sterling County, Block 7

Parent map for Sterling 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: Tom Green County, Block 8

Parent map for Tom Green County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tom Green County, Block 22

Parent map for Tom Green County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tom Green County, Inset A04

Inset map for Tom Green County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:10,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tom Green County, Inset D01

Inset map for Tom Green County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:7,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tom Green County, Block 10

Parent map for Tom Green County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Tom Green County, Inset C01

Inset map for Tom Green County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:2,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History