79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 159 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 159

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate welcoming the World Congress on Information Technology to Austin in May 2006.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 21 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 21

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives authorizing the naming of the natatorium at the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin for LeRoy Colombo.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-70 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-70

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Local Government Code section 252.024 in itself exempts municipal purchases of excess or surplus insurance from competitive bidding, and related questions (RQ-127)
Date: December 18, 1991
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-366 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-366

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; Duty and authority of the County Court of Cherokee County under Sec. 82 of the Mental Health Code under the stated facts.
Date: December 18, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Operating and Locking Device (open access)

Car-Door Operating and Locking Device

Patent for a car door operating and locking device that provides improved means for automatically closing and locking the doors before starting the car.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Automobile-Wheel and Flexible Tire. (open access)

Combined Automobile-Wheel and Flexible Tire.

Patent for improving tires for the motor vehicles. The invention provides a wheel with a tieldably connected tire so as to take up the vibration upon the vehicle equipped with the wheel. Further, invention provides vehicle wheel with a yieldable rim. This rim is for a wheel formed from sheet metal instead of usual pneumatic tire, eliminating the expense of repairs from punctures and blow-outs.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: La Bauve, Henry John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Chamber. (open access)

Air-Chamber.

Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.
Date: June 18, 1861
Creator: Creuzbaur, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1690, Chapter 927 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1690, Chapter 927

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the investigation and prosecution of offenses against public administration, including ethics offenses.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the House of Representatives of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Second Called Session Session, Thursday, July 18, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the House of Representatives of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Second Called Session Session, Thursday, July 18, 2013

Proceedings of the House of Representatives of Texas for the sixth day of the Second Called session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: July 18, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Thursday, April 18, 2013 [Continued] (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Thursday, April 18, 2013 [Continued]

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the forty-second day of the Regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: April 18, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Thursday, April 18, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Thursday, April 18, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the 43rd day of the regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: April 18, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Monday, March 18, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Monday, March 18, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the twenty-seventh day of the Regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: March 18, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater. (open access)

Water-Heater.

Patent for a compact gas powered water heater that runs the water through firmly attached tubes that expand and contract with the water temperature and are placed in between heating elements. The machine can also be packed with ice to cool water in the tubes.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Haynie, Brooks
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells. (open access)

Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.

Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Perry, Elton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddle-Trees. (open access)

Improvement in Saddle-Trees.

Patent for "an improvement in riding-saddles, designed to secure greater strength in the pommel and fork; and it consists in forming the fork of the saddle-tree and the pommel from malleable cast-iron, and in one and the same piece, the neck of the pommel being cast hollow for greater lightness, with the upper end of the casting open, which opening is closed by a surmounting cap of wood or other material, which finishes the pommel." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Still, Henry C. & Still, Joseph R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Lighters. (open access)

Improvement in Fire-Lighters.

Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Craig, Samuel M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Paper Bags. (open access)

Improvement in Paper Bags.

Patent for an improvement in paper bags with design specifications and a description of their functionality and usage, including illustrations.
Date: June 18, 1878
Creator: Alexander, Newton J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch. (open access)

Switch.

Patent for a switch for electrically operated elevator doors or gates that ensures their proper closing before the car travels through the shaft.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood & Covert, Frank M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Churns.

Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
Date: April 18, 1876
Creator: Rost, Otto
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Substitute. (open access)

Oil Substitute.

Patent for an oil paint substitute consisting of furniture glue, water, soda ash, and salicylic acid, rosin, and pigment. Includes instructions for three different formulas.
Date: May 18, 1897
Creator: Reynolds, Walter James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Germ-Destroyer for Telephone-Mouthpieces. (open access)

Germ-Destroyer for Telephone-Mouthpieces.

Patent for destroying disease causing germs in the mouth-piece of a telephone.
Date: December 18, 1900
Creator: Lacey, Lewis Lorenzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Floor Selector-Switch for Electric Door-Operating Apparatus (open access)

Floor Selector-Switch for Electric Door-Operating Apparatus

Patent for floor selector switch for electric door operating apparatus situated at the floor/landing near the elevator shaft to close and open the elevator gate/door. It also allows the elevator operator to use a switch to operate the elevator gate/door, and also lock the gate/door so it cannot be opened by accident. All said to work quickly and quietly.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevator-door-operating Apparatus (open access)

Elevator-door-operating Apparatus

Patent for an electrically controlled means of automatically "opening and closing the doors of the elevator shaft" without slamming or banging the doors, including illustrations.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang Plow and Cultivator. (open access)

Improvement in Gang Plow and Cultivator.

Patent for "a new and improved gang plow and cultivator" (lines 3-4), including instructions and illustrations. "This invention relates to a new agricultural machine which may be readily changed from a gang-plow into a cultivator, and vice-versa" (lines 15-17).
Date: December 18, 1877
Creator: Domschke, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History