Region View, Number 3.2, Summer 1996 (open access)

Region View, Number 3.2, Summer 1996

Quarterly newsletter of the Houston-Galveston Area Council discussing census data, demographics, land use, and other information about the gulf region of Texas.
Date: Summer 1996
Creator: Houston-Galveston Area Council. Data Services Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional View, Fall 1994 (open access)

Regional View, Fall 1994

Quarterly newsletter of the Houston-Galveston Area Council discussing census data, demographics, land use, and other information about the gulf region of Texas.
Date: Autumn 1994
Creator: Houston-Galveston Area Council. Data Services Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional View, Spring 1995 (open access)

Regional View, Spring 1995

Quarterly newsletter of the Houston-Galveston Area Council discussing census data, demographics, land use, and other information about the gulf region of Texas.
Date: Spring 1995
Creator: Houston-Galveston Area Council. Data Services Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional View, Summer 1995 (open access)

Regional View, Summer 1995

Quarterly newsletter of the Houston-Galveston Area Council discussing census data, demographics, land use, and other information about the gulf region of Texas.
Date: Summer 1995
Creator: Houston-Galveston Area Council. Data Services Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Region View, Number 2.3, Winter 1995 (open access)

Region View, Number 2.3, Winter 1995

Quarterly newsletter of the Houston-Galveston Area Council discussing census data, demographics, land use, and other information about the gulf region of Texas.
Date: Winter 1995
Creator: Houston-Galveston Area Council. Data Services Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Region View, Issue 3.1, Spring 1996 (open access)

Region View, Issue 3.1, Spring 1996

Quarterly newsletter of the Houston-Galveston Area Council discussing census data, demographics, land use, and other information about the gulf region of Texas.
Date: Spring 1996
Creator: Houston-Galveston Area Council. Data Services Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional View, Summer 1994 (open access)

Regional View, Summer 1994

Quarterly newsletter of the Houston-Galveston Area Council discussing census data, demographics, land use, and other information about the gulf region of Texas.
Date: Spring 1994
Creator: Houston-Galveston Area Council. Data Services Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Brace and Angle-Bar for Vehicle-Bodies. (open access)

Combined Brace and Angle-Bar for Vehicle-Bodies.

Patent for braces and angle bars on vehicle bodies that improves the brace to hold buggy beds together with illustration that shows improvements. "When these braces are secured on the bed they will prevent the adjacent parts of the bed from splitting, spreading or dropping down and they will hold the ends and sides, as well as the bottom of the bed securely in place" (lines 61-66).
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Kilpatrick, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow that can be easily and inexpensively adjusted to plow shallower or deeper.
Date: August 12, 1919
Creator: Kilpatrick, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Automatically Inflating Pneumatic Tires. (open access)

Means for Automatically Inflating Pneumatic Tires.

Patent for an automatically inflating tire which allows the tires to be inflated evenly at all times. "Should the air escape from the tire due to a puncture or leak the rim will be prevented from injuring the tire casing, as said casing will be prevented from becoming deflated" (lines 17-21). Motorists will no longer need to drive on flat tires waiting for repairs.
Date: November 9, 1920
Creator: Cooper, Jowel Cecil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Waller Counties, Texas, 1975-79 (open access)

Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Waller Counties, Texas, 1975-79

Report compiling United States Geological Survey data on wells, drillers logs, water-level measurements, and chemical analyses of water sources in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Collins Counties to assess the state of groundwater resources in the Greater Houston-Galveston area.
Date: July 1983
Creator: Ratzlaff, Karl W.; Ranzau, C. E. & Lind, W. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Withdrawals and Changes in Water Levels in the Houston District, Texas 1975-79 (open access)

Ground-Water Withdrawals and Changes in Water Levels in the Houston District, Texas 1975-79

Report on the published data on ground-water development in the Houston, Texas district.
Date: April 1984
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analysis of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend, And Waller Counties, Texas 1966-74 (open access)

Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analysis of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend, And Waller Counties, Texas 1966-74

Report on Analysis of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend, And Waller Counties, Texas 1966-74
Date: March 1976
Creator: Naftel, W. L.; Vaught, Kenneth & Fleming, Bobbie
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements and, Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend and Waller Counties,Texas, 1980-84 (open access)

Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements and, Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend and Waller Counties,Texas, 1980-84

This report presents the results of the hydrologic data collection on new large-capacity and other elected wells, including well location and completion data, driller's logs of the strata penetrated, water levels, and chemical quality of the produced water.
Date: November 1987
Creator: Williams, James F., III; Ranzau, C. E.; Lind, W. B. & Coplin, L. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3209, Chapter 540 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3209, Chapter 540

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 35; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3214, Chapter 542 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3214, Chapter 542

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3211, Chapter 541 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3211, Chapter 541

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 34; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Fertilizer-Distributer. (open access)

Combined Plow and Fertilizer-Distributer.

Patent for an improved combined plow and fertilizer-distributor that better feeds the fertilizer from the hopper or container to a depositing boot, from which the material is discharged into the furrow formed by the plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Hurlbut, Milan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Axle (open access)

Buggy-Axle

Patent for a buggy-axle that has the hub of the wheel so arranged as to rotate with the stub axle of the device, holding the wheel in place.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Elliott, Claude B. & Kurtz, Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Raising Journal-Boxes. (open access)

Means for Raising Journal-Boxes.

Patent for raising journal-boxes on a railroad car to easily renew the brasses or do other necessary tasks.
Date: June 8, 1916
Creator: Hathaway, Charles B. & Elliott, Claud B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pencil Attachment (open access)

Pencil Attachment

Patent for device that continuously applies mucilage to the penil without rendering it sticky.
Date: December 26, 1916
Creator: Elliott, Claud B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaning Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaning Machine.

Patent for an improvement for cotton-cleaning machines that removes harmful debris from cotton before passing the cotton into the cotton gin. The improvement uses brushes and air blowers to collect and divert debris.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Davison, Israel D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upper Barker Watershed Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report (open access)

Upper Barker Watershed Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report

Report on a flood protection and management plan for the Upper Barker Watershed.
Date: June 26, 2015
Creator: Halff Associates
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upper Cypress Creek Watershed Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report (open access)

Upper Cypress Creek Watershed Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report

Report on a flood protection plan for the Upper Cypress Creek Watershed in Waller County, Texas.
Date: November 16, 2012
Creator: Halff Associates
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History