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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Annual Report: 1886
Annual report of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts documenting financial records including disbursements and transactions made by the office during fiscal year 1886.
Date:
1887
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1887
Annual report of the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, providing data about operations, updates about programs, and other information related to activities at the hospital.
Date:
1887
Creator:
North Texas Hospital for the Insane
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky
A report about the peridotite found in dikes of an eruptive rock between Isom's and Critche's Creeks in Kentucky.
Date:
1887
Creator:
Diller, J. S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Upper Beaches and Deltas of the Glacial Lake Agassiz
A report about the exploration of the extinct Lake Agassiz, now a prairie, in Minnesota that was explored in 1879 and 1881.
Date:
1887
Creator:
Upham, Warren
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Types of the Laramie Flora
From explanatory remarks: I have in preparation a work on the flora of the Laramie group, in which will be described and figured a very large number of fossil plants, most of 'which were collected by myself in the seasons of 1881 and 1883 and the elaboration of which has occupied most of my time since the latter date.
Date:
1887
Creator:
Ward, Lester F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
On the Fossil Faunas of the Upper Devonian: the Genesee Section, New York
From letter of transmittal: The present report includes special discussion of the faunas of the Hamilton group and of those below the black shales of the Genesee group is omitted.
Date:
1887
Creator:
Williams, Henry Shaler
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tertiary and Cretaceous Strata of the Tuscaloosa, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers
From preface: This bulletin is based upon the observations of the Tertiary and Cretaceous strata exposed along the Tuscaloosa, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers in the state of Alabama.
Date:
1887
Creator:
Smith, Eugene Allen & Johnson, Lawrence C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Taylor Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burnet Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lampasas Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mason Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blanco Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Llano Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind Stop.
Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design consists "of a corrugated flange or plate connected with the frame thereof, a spring-retaining strip, a corrugated bar arranged between the retaining strip and the corrugated flange, a socket formed upon the corrugated bar and adapted to receive the slat-bar, and a set-screw carried by the retaining strip" (lines 77-84).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Gulick, Lizzie Talley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee Feeder.
Patent for a new and improved bee feeder. This design consists in "the vertically oblong box or case having an opening in one side of its lower end, a trough or basin projecting in front of said lower opening, and lateral attaching flanges or wings" (lines 68-72).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
McWilliams, Wright H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Adjuster.
Patent for a new and improved book-adjuster. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the holder having the horizontal longitudinal recess and the vertical screw-threaded aperture, of the base-piece, the adjusting-screw swiveled at its lower end in the said base-piece, and the spring-catch" (lines 3-8).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Adair, Irvine James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a coupling for air-brakes, of the movable arm having the recess or socket, and the pivoted arm having the shoulder or offset adapted to fit the recess and provided with the [other] arm to direct the said shoulder or offset to the said recess when the coupling-arms come together, the said shoulder and recess forming the terminals of the air-pipes at the ends of the cars" (lines 92-100).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists in "[a]n ant-trap, comprising the body and the inward-projecting tubes having the protecting-caps on their inner ends, the outer faces of the caps being convex and provided with apertures of greater diameter than the bore of the inner end of the tube" (lines 90-95).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
McCallum, Walter Randolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination, with a draw-bar, a sliding box, a movable eccentric secured therein, a coupling-rod, and a pivoted locking-jaw, of a locking-plate secured to said box and adapted to lock the jaw against movement" (lines 84-89).
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Zedler, Fridrick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "in combination with the jaws . . . which are arranged to move laterally and simultaneously . . . each having two side hooks combined with the bar and springs . . . the levers, shaft, pulleys, and the chains which pass over the pulleys and connect the rollers with the jaws" (lines 86-96).
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Neal, Adam Sylvester
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Saw Buck and Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved saw-buck and drag-saw. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the saw-buck having cross-piece, the swinging arm pivoted to and laterally movable on said cross-piece, the upper-end of said arm being provided with a slot, the saw, the saw-carriers . . . having spindles, the forward-carrier being provided with a tenon, and the saw-frame pivotally mounted on the spindles of the saw-carriers" (lines 74-82).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Nitsche, John Emil & Kowalewsky, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "the frame, the axle having drive-wheels, and a bevel-gear in combination with the longitudinally-sliding gear-shaft having [a] short crank on its rear end, the bar, the longitudinal rock-shaft in rear of and above the shaft and having the long crank, the handle depending from the rear-end of the rock-shaft, and the opposite chopping-hoes" (lines 27-35).
Date:
March 29, 1887
Creator:
Ferriott, Charlie L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Recording-Seal and Door-Fastener.
Patent for a continuous recording-seal and door-fastener. The purpose behind this patent is the continuous recording-seal and door-fastener itself which is intended to "provide a simple means of fastening, sealing, and cleating or closing the crack of a car or other sliding hinge door" (lines 9-12).
Date:
March 29, 1887
Creator:
Ferguson, George J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists "[i]n a device for catching ants, the combination, with an open frame, of the end piece or trough, having a concave bottom and overturned edges" (lines 84-87).
Date:
March 29, 1887
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History