Texas Superintendent of Public Instruction Biennial Report: 1885-1886 (open access)

Texas Superintendent of Public Instruction Biennial Report: 1885-1886

Biennial report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Texas Department of Education discussing the educational needs in the state, documenting information and statistics regarding schools and students, and reporting on agency activities.
Date: 1886
Creator: Texas. State Department of Education.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Superintendent of Public Instruction Biennial Report: 1885-1886 (open access)

Texas Superintendent of Public Instruction Biennial Report: 1885-1886

Biennial report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Texas Department of Education discussing the educational needs in the state, documenting information and statistics regarding schools and students, and reporting on agency activities.
Date: 1886
Creator: Texas. State Department of Education.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Superintendent of Public Instruction Biennial Report: 1885-1886 (open access)

Texas Superintendent of Public Instruction Biennial Report: 1885-1886

Biennial report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Texas Department of Education discussing the educational needs in the state, documenting information and statistics regarding schools and students, and reporting on agency activities.
Date: 1886
Creator: Texas. State Department of Education.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Notes of the Geology of North California (open access)

Notes of the Geology of North California

A report about a complex group of mountain ridges in Northern California and Oregon. It discusses the geology of North California.
Date: 1886
Creator: Diller, J. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
On the Relation of the Laramie Molluscan Fauna to That of the Succeeding Fresh-Water Eocene and Other Groups (open access)

On the Relation of the Laramie Molluscan Fauna to That of the Succeeding Fresh-Water Eocene and Other Groups

A report about strata found in Utah and Wyoming which contains fresh water types of fossil molluscan forms which share some characteristics of the Laramie Group.
Date: 1886
Creator: White, Charles A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subsidence of Fine Solid Particles in Liquids (open access)

Subsidence of Fine Solid Particles in Liquids

A report about the phenomenon of subsidence which is divided into parts.
Date: 1886
Creator: Barus, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physical Properties of the Iron-Carburets: Third Paper (open access)

Physical Properties of the Iron-Carburets: Third Paper

A report about magnetization and homogeneity as it pertains to Iron-Carburets.
Date: 1886
Creator: Barus, Carl & Strouhal, Vincent
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gabbros and Associated Hornblende Rocks Occurring in the Neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland (open access)

The Gabbros and Associated Hornblende Rocks Occurring in the Neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland

From introduction: The present paper is intended as a contribution to our knowledge of a particular phase of metamorphism in eruptive rocks, i.e., that one which is dependent on the secondary development of hornblende by the paramorphism or pseudomorphism of pyroxene.
Date: 1886
Creator: Williams, George Huntington
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent to an improvement to churns "in which its action may be either single or double acting by means of a simple and efficacious arrangement of parts" (lines 18-21).
Date: January 19, 1886
Creator: Persohn, John William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clevis. (open access)

Clevis.

Patent for a new and improved clevis. This design "is to provide a clevis with a series of attaching-loops whereby the line of draft may be changed as circumstances may require, to bring the line of draft to either side of the plow-beam, or above or below the same, and to provide a clevis with a centrally-located attaching-loop, to be used where a direct or central draft is needed" (lines 11-18).
Date: January 26, 1886
Creator: Dunn, Henry Frankling
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy Top Support. (open access)

Buggy Top Support.

Patent for a new and improved support for buggy-tops. This design "relates to supports for the tops of buggies or other vehicles, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, effective, and durable device for attachment to the folding braces of the vehicle-tops to prevent the accidental folding of the top when the vehicles are on the road" (lines 7-13).
Date: January 26, 1886
Creator: Finney, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith. (open access)

Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.

Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind Engine. (open access)

Wind Engine.

Patent for a new and improved wind engine. This design "relates to an improvement in wind-engines, in which a vertical circular frame having a wind-wheel is covered to the half by a hemispherical roof supported by posts" (lines 8-12).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Serdinko, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cane Mill. (open access)

Cane Mill.

Patent for a new and improved sugarcane mill. This design "consist[s] of the frame composed of [a] bed-piece, vertical standards, and horizontal pieces, [one] piece having [a] trough, the vertical shaft, horizontally movable . . . and provided with the gear, the roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, the [other] roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, boxes, and screw-threaded rods" (lines 81-89).
Date: February 9, 1886
Creator: Webb, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band Stretcher. (open access)

Band Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved band stretcher. This design "relates to improvements in band-stretchers in which a windlass, crank, and ratchets operate in conjunction with a sliding clamp; and the object of [the] improvement is to provide a device with which the ends of a band may be drawn together and held for the purpose of lacing" (lines 15-21).
Date: February 23, 1886
Creator: Lawrence, Joseph A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a new baling press design with description of parts and their functions, with illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Bryan, Walter S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Seat Recorder. (open access)

Car Seat Recorder.

Patent for a new and improved car-seat recorder. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the following elements: a car-axle, the depressible car-seat, and the recording apparatus arranged alongside the seat and consisting of friction feed-wheels, a paper strip, meshing spur-gears, and a puncturing device arranged vertically, a lever which operatively connects said seat and apparatus, and gearing which connects the latter with the axle, whereby movement of the car operates said apparatus and enables the record to be made by slitting the strip when the seat is depressed" (lines 22-33).
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Bywaters, Joseph K. & Burke, John Y.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock for Money-Drawers, &c. (open access)

Combination-Lock for Money-Drawers, &c.

Patent for improvement to a combination lock for money drawers to make it more secure.
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Sturgis, Herbert M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses (open access)

Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses

Patent for the construction of an improved odorless apparatus for dry out-houses, including explications and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame or support, the lever-arms, the winch and the ropes connecting the said arms thereto, the follower, the toggle-jointed levers connecting the said follower with the frame, and the rods connecting the joints of the said levers to the lever-arms, with the follower and the fulcrumed levers, having their inner ends connected to the follower and their outer ends connected to [a different] follower whereby the said followers move simultaneously when the winch is turned" (lines 83-94).
Date: March 30, 1886
Creator: Robburts, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Lubricator. (open access)

Axle Lubricator.

Patent for a new and improved axle-lubricator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the tube having the threaded outer end, of the cap threaded to close said end, and the shank or stem carrying the conical plug at its lower or inner end, and screw-threaded to work through a threaded perforation of the cap, a shoulder being provided on the stem or shank at the base of the threads, operating to cause the unscrewing of the cap by the continued turning of the shank or stem" (lines 80-89).
Date: April 13, 1886
Creator: Hawkins, Andrew Jackson & Allen, Sam Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Pump. (open access)

Balanced Pump.

Patent for a new and improved balanced pump. This design "relates to improvements in balanced pumps having two vertical receiving-cylinders provided with vertically-reciprocating plungers, and two vertical delivery-cylinders provided with plunging-barrels, all being provided with suitable valves operating automatically in conjunction therewith; and the objects of [the] invention are, first, to provide a pump by means of which water or other fluids may be conducted or raised with but little propelling power, and . . . to afford facilities for readily attaching it to be driven by any steam-engine" (lines 15-27).
Date: April 20, 1886
Creator: Ramsey, Haley S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Box for Washing Material for Concrete. (open access)

Box for Washing Material for Concrete.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in boxes for washing aggregate or rough material for making concrete" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wrench. (open access)

Combination Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "[t]he bar having the nut-wrench and the hammer-head formed at one end, the pipe-wrench formed at the opposite end, and the slot made in one side, the spring located in the bottom of the slot or opening, and the blade pivoted in one end of the slot or opening and bearing on the free end of the spring, the said blade forming a screw-driver" (lines 52-59).
Date: May 4, 1886
Creator: Wright, Augustus Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History