North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1892 (open access)

North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1892

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: 1892
Creator: North Texas Hospital for the Insane
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Some Insects of Special Interest from Florissant, Colorado and Other Points in the Tertiaries of Colorado and Utah (open access)

Some Insects of Special Interest from Florissant, Colorado and Other Points in the Tertiaries of Colorado and Utah

A report about the characteristics of a few Oligocene insects of different orders which, from some peculiarity, have been thought worthy of special study out of serial course.
Date: 1892
Creator: Scudder, Samuel Hubbard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey No. 90 (open access)

Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey No. 90

Report describing work done in the division of chemistry and physics during the fiscal year of 1891. It includes summaries with findings for much of the research.
Date: 1892
Creator: Powell, J. W.; Clarke, F. W. & Schneider, E. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Compressibility of Liquids (open access)

The Compressibility of Liquids

A report about certain researches on the thermodynamics of liquids in progress at the laboratory.
Date: 1892
Creator: Barus, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mechanism of Solid Viscosity (open access)

The Mechanism of Solid Viscosity

A report about about the viscosity of solids which have an immediate bearing on the molecular mechanism by which viscous motion in solids is promoted.
Date: 1892
Creator: Barus, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earthquakes in California in 1890 and 1891 (open access)

Earthquakes in California in 1890 and 1891

A paper which records all of the shocks observed or felt on Mount Hamilton, and all of those reported to the Lick Observatory by letter; as well as newspaper reports of such earthquakes as occurred in the state during that year.
Date: 1892
Creator: Holden, Edward Singleton
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Volume Thermodynamics of Liquids (open access)

The Volume Thermodynamics of Liquids

From preface: In the following chapters, I have commenced a serious study of the volume thermodynamics of liquids and solids. The work is, as yet, confined to volume, pressure, and temperature. Questions involving entropy and energy are also in active progress, but can not be included in the present bulletin.
Date: 1892
Creator: Barus, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correlation Papers: Neocene (open access)

Correlation Papers: Neocene

From outline: This paper, after discussing general principles connected with the study and description of the Tertiary or Cenozoic rocks and fossils contained in them, takes up the Neocene deposits of the United States in particular. A chapter is devoted to a summary of what is known in regard to the Neocene of the eastern coast of the United States, each State in geographical order being separately considered, beginning at the north.
Date: 1892
Creator: Dall, William Healey & Harris, Gilbert Dennison
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Eden 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ballinger 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Temple 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Abilene 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Albany 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Angelo 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Waco 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: 1892
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine (open access)

Adding-Machine

Patent for "a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may accomplish with facility and case all the purposes for which it is intended" (lines 13-16).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Wright, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for an improvement in car couplings "whereby the pin-support is operated not by the links but by the impact of the cars themselves and of a yielding link" (lines 55-58).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Young, James D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp or Fastener for Wire Fences. (open access)

Clamp or Fastener for Wire Fences.

Patent for a new and improved clamp for wire fences. This design "is to make a device by which the horizontal rails of a wire fence may be conveniently fastened to the vertical stay-wires" (lines 12-15). It "consist[s] of the metallic disk or plate with the curved cross-groove and prongs to hold the horizontal rail and the perpendicular stay-wire, and the key" (lines 69-73).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Rogers, Charles S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Condenser. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.

Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and condenser. This design "is to produce a cheap and simple machine of this class which is adapted for use in connection with a cotton-gin and which will rapidly separate the dirt from the cotton and will also condense the cotton, so that it may be easily handled and baled" (lines 10-16). It consists in "[t]he combination of the case or frame having an inlet and its lower end and a hinged downward-curved hood at its upper end with the endless carrier mounted in the said case or frame with its higher end within the curved hood" (lines 47-52).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Wherry, William B. & Smith, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for "car-couplers of the class known as 'link-and-pin' couplers, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the coupling is effected automatically and whereby the coupling-pin is made to actuate the brake-shaft" (lines 14-19).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Acuff, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet-Bed (open access)

Cabinet-Bed

Patent for "a cheap and simple construction of bed of this class, adapted to be readily folded or unfolded and to provide means for automatically folding and unfolding the legs for supporting the foot of the bed-frame when said frame is raised or lowered" (lines 9-15)
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Hayton, John. W. & Swift, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blank Book. (open access)

Blank Book.

Patent for a new and improved blank book. This design "consists in securing blank sheets to a binding forming the back of the book . . . so that the attachment and detachment of the sheets may be conveniently effected. Thus [the design] produce[s] a blank book which is particularly adapted for use of type-writers and other copyists" (lines 11-18).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Burris, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Callaway, William H. & West, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridge. (open access)

Bridge.

Patent for a bridge of "simple and strong construction in metal of very low cost and light weight, using only such materials as are easily available, being also of easy construction and well adapted to resist washouts" (lines 9-13).
Date: July 5, 1892
Creator: Kosure, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History