Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1906
Creator: Payne, Lewis.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace-Forming Die (open access)

Furnace-Forming Die

Patent for a die for fashioning a furnace for cooking and ironing. Illustrations included.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Williams, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for a large hopper-based device which generates acetylene gas.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Clopton, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues (open access)

Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues

Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Caffey, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Muehr, Frank & Frerich, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boat-Propeller. (open access)

Boat-Propeller.

Patent for a boat propeller, which is inexpensive and adaptable to small boats. The propeller can go forwards or backwards and use multiple oars.
Date: February 5, 1901
Creator: Caffey, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with rotating blades.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Prokschl, Mathias
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
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination of the draw-heads provided with projections, a coupling-link, an operating-rod loosely connected to each of its ends, and a suitable support or guide through which these rods move . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a car-coupling in which the two cars are coupled together by means of a link which is provided with an operating rod at each end, both of the rods and the link being attached to one of the cars only" (lines 14-26).
Date: April 29, 1890
Creator: Campbell, Neil Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Washer (open access)

Dish-Washer

Patent fora dishwasher. The object of this invention is to furnish an improved means for washing dishes in such a manner that all foreign substances, greasy matters, and offensive odors may be readily and expeditiously removed and the dishes restored dry and clean by the operation of the machine without handling them.
Date: January 14, 1891
Creator: Hoppe, J. Frederick William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Reissued patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton press: "The invention consists in operating the nut of a follower-screw by means of a drive-pinion, whose own shaft is actuated alternately in opposite directions, by a friction-wheel" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Knowles, William Wadsworth
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle. (open access)

Bicycle.

Patent for a bicycle that has a drive wheel, a ratchet wheel attached to the drive wheel, a chain that goes around the ratchet wheel, an apparatus for reciprocating the chain, a guideway from the chain to the ratchet wheel, a knob on the chain that engages the guideway, a pair of levers connected to the chain, and a chord that connects the levers to the chain.
Date: February 19, 1895
Creator: Williams, Elbert D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Bastrop County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of Bastrop County, Texas

Text describing climate, agriculture, and soils of Bastrop County, Texas.
Date: August 12, 1908
Creator: Winston, R. A. (Robert Alonzo); Meeker, F. N.; Eckman, O. L.; Lyman, W. S.; Schroeder, Frank C.; Rice, Thomas D. (Thomas Donnelly) et al.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1981, Chapter 195 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1981, Chapter 195

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the terms of office for directors of the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District.
Date: May 23, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Report: 2011 (open access)

Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Report: 2011

Annual report for the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) describing developments and updates on organizational programs.
Date: 2011~
Creator: Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-723 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-723

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Funding responsibilities of the city of Bastrop under the Indigent Health Care Act.
Date: June 18, 1987
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Bastrop County, Block 2

Parent map for Bastrop County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Caldwell County, Block 8

Parent map for Caldwell County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Bastrop County, Block 22

Parent map for Bastrop County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Bastrop County, Block 23

Parent map for Bastrop County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Bastrop County, Block 20

Parent map for Bastrop County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Bastrop County, Block 1

Parent map for Bastrop County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Travis County, Block 83

Parent map for Travis County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Bastrop County, Block 21

Parent map for Bastrop County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History