Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for an improvement in attachments for cultivators, including illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Leischner, Gotthilf
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Handling Apparatus (open access)

Mail-Handling Apparatus

Patent for an improved mail handling apparatus for use in trains that has an automatic mechanism to bridge the auxiliary car and the mail car when the car reaching the end of its track, including illustrations.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Kerns, George E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener. (open access)

Tire-Tightener.

Patent for a device that can easily expand or retract a tire onto the rim of a wheel. This allows for tires to be easily replaced as well as preventing the tire from slipping off the rim while in use.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Leischner, Gotthilf
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Caster. (open access)

Spring-Caster.

Patent for spring casters. "The principal object of the invention is to construct a caster in such a manner that an adequate resilient support will be obtained for the bed without the use of a spring mattress of like device" (lines 9-13).
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Smith, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter (open access)

Planter

Patent for new and improved planter with illustrations and instructions.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Leischner, G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller for Railway-Track Jacks. (open access)

Roller for Railway-Track Jacks.

Patent for roller for railway track jacks that will lessen the weight of the jack and allow it to be moved easily.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Funk, William R. & Funk, Charley F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region B (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region B

Water plan for Region B describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation plans, drought response plans, the process of creating the plan.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Biggs & Mathews, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Northwest Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Northwest Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Northwest Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: July 2002
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, December 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, December 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Northwest Texas area.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, June 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, June 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Northwest Texas area.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, December 2008 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, December 2008

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Northwest Texas area.
Date: December 2008
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn, which has reciprocatory gear movement inside that allows the milk or cream to be churned faster with less effort.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Mabry, Henry Woodford
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Strecher (open access)

Wire Strecher

Patent for wire stretcher. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Longan, John Virgle
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Low Down Binder (open access)

Low Down Binder

Patent for low down binder. "This invention relates to new and useful improvements in low down binders; and the object of the invention is to produce an apparatus whereby it will not be necessary to elevate grain, as in common binders, allowing the same to pass down an incline to the packers" (line 14-19). Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle - Axle (open access)

Vehicle - Axle

Patent for a vehicle axle with removable spindle, whereby spindles of different length may be connected to the axle to change the gage of the vehicle--that is, from a narrow - gage vehicle to a wide-gage vehicle, and vice versa - and also permit of the replacement of an old worn spindle by a new one (Matthews, 1902)
Date: March 6, 1902
Creator: Mathews, Arthur R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Threshing-Mashine (open access)

Threshing-Mashine

Patent for a threshing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 5, 1908
Creator: Sanders, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Propelling Device for Aerial Ships (open access)

Propelling Device for Aerial Ships

Patent for a propelling device for aerial ships which operates by forcing air through a tube, creating suction and exerting propulsion. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements to plows, "designed to loosen and pulverize the upper surface of the ground without turning the same over and without forming furrows, whereby the plowed ground retains its moisture to a greater extent" (lines 7-12) and to also reduce the draft.
Date: November 9, 1901
Creator: Sanders, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter (open access)

Feed-Cutter

Patent for a improvement for cutter.
Date: September 11, 1906
Creator: Wolf, Davis L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for "a new and improved rotary engine which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to utilize the motive agent to the fullest advantage, and to permit of convenient and quick reversing whenever desired" (lines 9-15).
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hestand, Hardy & Matthews, Arthur R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoeing-Rasp (open access)

Horseshoeing-Rasp

Patent for improved horseshoeing rasp, both portable and mechanical, which removes extra hoof after shoe is applied to foot. Invention also provides smoother and trimmer hoof with shoe.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Daggett, John P. & Hestand, Hardy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knotter Attachment for Harvester (open access)

Knotter Attachment for Harvester

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Knotter Attachments for Harvester" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1901
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wichita Falls

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 1:100000
Date: 1985
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bobcat Bluff Quadrangle

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 1:24000
Date: 1967
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History