Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Yeiser, John Clarke & Story, Leonidas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Explosive Oil-Container. (open access)

Non-Explosive Oil-Container.

Patent for a protective screen of refractory filaments for "containers holding inflammable, explosive fluids such as naphtha, benzin, gasolene, etc." (lines 10-12)
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Ziller, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Base-Ball Score-Card (open access)

Base-Ball Score-Card

Patent for a baseball score card that has spaces for putting the players name on the card from both teams on the same side.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Dealey, Walter A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Planter. (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Planter.

Patent for a new part that attaches to an ordinary cultivator. The device has a plow that runs in front, and a planting mechanism that spreads seeds in the plowed rows. This device makes it possible to plough and plant in one sweep of the field.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Noren, Peter O. & Clyburn, Mile D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator (open access)

Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator

Patent for improvements to a Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator used for ore and gravel.
Date: December 3, 1901
Creator: Journeay, William O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crayon-Holder (open access)

Crayon-Holder

Patent for a new and useful crayon holder, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 19, 1899
Creator: Yates, Robert T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blind-Slat Fastener. (open access)

Blind-Slat Fastener.

Patent for improvements in blind-slat fasteners, in which it holds the blinds so that air can pass through. Illustration is included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Riley, John Brizendine
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study (open access)

Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study

The purpose of the Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study is to analyze the feasibility of implementing 110 mph intercity passenger rail service between Austin and Houston including possible service to Bryan/ College Station. This feasibility analysis consisted of identifying the characteristics of existing rail infrastructure and operations in the study corridors, analyzing potential alternative alignments for the passenger rail operations, and determining required infrastructure and impacts for potential passenger rail service in the study area.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c. (open access)

Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.

Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Thompson, George
Object Type: Patent
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: DM-71 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-71

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; Authority of public housing authority to regulate tenants' legal possession of firearms (RQ-150)
Date: December 31, 1991
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-786 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-786

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; Authority of the Comptroller to issue warrants for deposit with the United States Marshall for use in serving subpoenas in a Haebeas Corpus suit in the Federal Court against the Director of the Department of Corrections and related questions.
Date: December 9, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-787 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-787

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; Whether the terms "convicted", "conviction", or "finally convicted" as used in the cited provisions of the Texas Liquor Control Act, mean and include a conviction where the sentence is probated under the terms of Art. 42.12 or Art. 42.13 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Date: December 9, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-788 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-788

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; Questions relating to the authority of a county commissioners court to include certaint provisions in the bid proposal and purchase agreement in purchasing road machinery.
Date: December 9, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-789 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-789

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; Payment of court costs to Lynn County on a felony case wherein the case was transferred to Lynn County from Jones County on a change of venue.
Date: December 10, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-790 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-790

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; Whether the counties located within the Kickapoo Watershed have the authority to pay for the maintenance cost of dams erected in the watershed under the particular facts stated.
Date: December 13, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-791 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-791

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; Application of Section 19 of Article 3271a, Vernon's Civil Statutes, to public school plant planning and construction and related questions.
Date: December 28, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-792 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-792

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 clarificppation; Whether a county employee may recieve pay for working as an election clerk on holiday, and also recieve his regular salary for that day; and a related question.
Date: December 28, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-793 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-793

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; Eligibility of FHA insured first lien mortgages as investments for the Permanent University Fund of the University of Texas, and the authority of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, the State Board of Education, State Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System and the State Board of Trustees of the Teacher Retirement System to contract for the servicing of FHA insured first lien mortgage investments.
Date: December 29, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-360 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-360

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; Whether certain property owned by the Lutheran Student Foundation of Houston is exempt from ad valorem taxes under stated facts.
Date: December 10, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-361 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-361

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; Method of computing inheritance taxes where husband wills to third parties in his community one-half interest in government bonds payable to himself or his wife.
Date: December 11, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-362 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-362

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; Voter Eligibility in local option election.
Date: December 14, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-363 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-363

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; Whether the Legislature may authorize the Water Development Board to extend loans to political subdivisions of the State for conserving and developing underground water or may guarantee bond issues of political subdivisions of the State issued to provide funds for use in developing and conserving underground waters.
Date: December 17, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-364 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-364

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; Whether, under the Constitution of Texas, a representative-elect would be entitled to recieve a salary for being employed as a teacher in an independent school dsitrict at any time during his term of office as a member of the Legislature.
Date: December 16, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History