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Report of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas: 1889
Annual report of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts documenting financial records including disbursements and transactions made by the office during fiscal year 1889. Index starts on page 3.
Date:
January 1, 1890
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Engines.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic stopping mechanism for engines.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Hunter, Victor Emmet
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed - Slat.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bed-slates to provide a strong brace.
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
Pickett, Mollie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boats to "increase the speed and insure greater safety and stability in sailing vessels, row-boats, canoes, and the like" (line 12-14).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Evesson, Martin V. B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check - Spring.
Patent for a new and improved check-spring. This design "relates to check reins; and its object is to provide a new and improved check-spring for preventing sudden jars to a horse's mouth when the animal throws his head forward" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
January 18, 1898
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Reid, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back and Shoulder Brace.
Patent for a new and useful back-support and shoulder-brace. This invention "relates to means for strengthening and supporting the back and shoulders of persons engaged in occupations which require stooping" (line 8-11).
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
Bassett, James Andrews
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothing - Boiler
Patent for a new and improved clothing-boiler. This design is to "provide a device of this character in which there is practically no danger of the water or suds-boiling over to the exterior" (line 8 - 11).
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Rylander, William Pitts
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake for Street or Railway Cars.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in brakes for street or railway cars.
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Hughes, Joel A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Weaving Device.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Portable wire-weaving device.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Murrah, Louis T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire - Fence Machine.
Patent for a new and useful wire-fence machine. This design is to "provide a simple, compact, light, and comparatively inexpensive machine adapted to be transported with facility to enable a single operator to readily distribute" (line 10 - 13).
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Allen, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Tightener.
Patent for certain improvement in a wire-fence tightening device.
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
Gililland, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Invalid's Chair.
Patent for a new and improved invalid's chair. This design "relates to an improvement in chairs which will adapt them to the use of invalids and children" (line 7-9).
Date:
January 18, 1898
Creator:
Yznaga, Juana G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floor - Set.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in floor sets. This invention "is designed for use in laying floors or putting up sidings and ceilings" (line 13-14).
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
Leavens, Charles William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk - Cutter.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in stalk-cutters to "provide a simple, light, and durable machine by means of which three rows of stalks may be cut in one passage of the machine across the field" (line 13-16).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Acre, William Floyd & Wafford, William Penn
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stationary Boiler.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in stationary boilers for " marine, locomotive, and stationary purposes" (line 14- 15).
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
McCallum, Daniel W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley - Guard
Patent for a new and useful improvement in trolley-guards to prevent "the trolley - wheel at the top of a trolley - pole from jumping fro the conducting - wire, thus avoiding the stopping of the cars" (line 9 - 11).
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
Vogler, Herman J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in toys. This design is to " produce a top which will be capable of unusual momentum with the resultant prolonged action" (line 10 - 12).
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Laube, Godfried
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nailing - Machine.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in nailing-machines. This design is "adapted to automatically distribute and feed the nails to a predetermined point" (line 10-12).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Brady, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snuff - Package.
Patent for a new and useful snuff-packages for the retail trade. This design is to "provide a receptacle in which the snuff can be packed and kept in proper condition until used" (line 9 - 11).
Date:
January 18, 1898
Creator:
Shaw, Wilber S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Wagon-Box Step
Patent for a new and useful folding wagon-box steps. This design is to "provide a novel, simple, and safe device of the character indicated which is adapted for compact and convenient folding into a close package when not in use" (line 11-14).
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Brown, Marvel C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage - Shears
Patent for a new and useful improvements in shears. This design "consists of the details of construction and arrangement of the several parts"(line 16-19).
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Steen, Emma L. Nevada
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game - Carrier.
Patent for a new and useful instrument and device to "provide hunters and fishermen with a light, cheap, clean, convenient, and secure means of carrying their game and fish" (line 18 -20).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Parker, McCluer H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher
Patent for a new and useful horse-detaching device. This design is to "provide an exceedingly cheap and simple device wich can be applied to all classes of vehicles" (line 8 - 10).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Ponton, Joseph P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History