Can-Opener (open access)

Can-Opener

Patent for a new and improved can opener. This design "consists of can-opener comprising a blade or cutter vertically adjustable to allow it to be forced into a can-head to be cut" (lines 34-36).
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Connett, Matthew F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
BLIND-STOP (open access)

BLIND-STOP

Patent for an improvement in Blind-Stops. "My invention relates to improvements in blind-stops, and has for its object to provide a simple, strong, and cheap device of this kind." (lines 15-18) and illustration.
Date: August 18, 1903
Creator: Koenig, Charles Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner. (open access)

Burner.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in burners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1899
Creator: Dickerson, Ernest Clifton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome (open access)

Aerodrome

Patent for an aerodrome which is a heavier than air flying machine powered by motorized propellers
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Sinclair, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle guard to prevent animals from going on railroad tracks by installing plates which grate and rock if an animal steps on them to scare the animals away from the tracks.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: Herring, Henry H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit. (open access)

Bit.

Patent for a bridle bit that helps a handler to hold or guide an animal without harming its mouth. Illustration included.
Date: August 21, 1900
Creator: Castro, Alberto
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medina County, Community of D'Hanis Flood Protection Study (open access)

Medina County, Community of D'Hanis Flood Protection Study

The report discuses the Medina Count-D'Hanis Flood Protection Study, which evaluates the flooding problems in the D'Hanis area within Medina County and develop cost effective flood reduction alternatives considering public safety and welfare. (Ex Summ I).
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baggage Check and Clasp. (open access)

Baggage Check and Clasp.

Patent for a new and improved baggage check and clasp. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a check, a direction-plate, and a clasp for securing said parts to an article of baggage" (lines 18-21).
Date: August 1, 1882
Creator: McLeary, James Harvey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved combined seed planter and cultivator. This design "is to provide combined seed-planters and cultivators constructed in such a manner that the seed-planting mechanism can be readily detached when not required for use, and also in such a manner that each plow can be adjusted independently of the others when desired" (lines 18-24).
Date: August 15, 1882
Creator: Gifford, George L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter. (open access)

Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.

Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps. (open access)

Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps.

Patent for a new and improved air-compressor. This design "relates to improvements in air-compressing mechanism for the purpose of pumping for forcing from deep wells and performing similar work; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a larger and smaller air-cylinder, and the combination therewith of mechanism to force the air from the larger into the smaller cylinder to increase the air-pressure in the latter" (lines 22-30).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Adams, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-291 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-291

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What procedure is to be followed in setting the county tax rate in Bexar County when the County Judge is incapacitated and unable to attend the regular session of the Commissioners Court.
Date: August 11, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-240 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-240

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Bexar County to pay the City of San Antonio costs of acquiring rights-of-way under the facts submitted.
Date: August 26, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-936 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-936

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Authority of Commissioners court of Bexar County to make payments to the industrial development Commission of Metropolitan of Bexar County.
Date: August 16, 1971
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7348 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7348

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Liability of City of San Antonio and San Antonio Independent School District for State and county taxes on lands bought in by City at tax sale.
Date: August 22, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Number-Displaying Device. (open access)

Number-Displaying Device.

Patent for illuminated signs which illuminate number displaying devices for vehicles. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Jenner, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Patent for new and useful Improvements in Automatic Railway-Switches, "particularly to automatic railway switches for use in street railways or steam railways" (lines 13-15), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Eisenberg, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union. (open access)

Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union.

Patent for an affordable and efficient coupling device for use "on valve rods of internal combustion engines, especially those used in automobiles and aeroplanes or on those motors or engines employing overhead valves and whereby the union or coupling may be readily and securely locked on a valve rod with sufficient resistance to withstand the strain of direct pressure" (lines 14-21).
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Dickinson, Harry E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4746 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4746

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can proceeds of the sales of bonds issued under the provisions of Chap. V., Title 71, R. C. S. of Texas (Article 4478, et seq). which cannot be used to build a hospital on account of the war emergency be invested in United States War Bonds or in bonds of the State of Texas or Bexar County?
Date: August 4, 1942
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio Operating Budget: 2017 (open access)

University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio Operating Budget: 2017

Proposed budget for University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: August 25, 2016
Creator: University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Government Canyon State Natural Area [Rack Card] (open access)

Government Canyon State Natural Area [Rack Card]

Card advertising Government Canyon State Natural Area with brief descriptive information and a summary of activities, facilities, and other features of the location.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design and application of accessible land-use modeling tools for Texas regions (open access)

Design and application of accessible land-use modeling tools for Texas regions

"This report consists of two parts. The first summarizes key details of the Suitability Analysis (SA) model, while the second illustrates the implementation details of the Gravity Land-Use Model (G-LUM). Both modeling approaches have been applied to the Austin region of Texas, but for different case study examples."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Kockelman, Kara; Anjomani, Ardeshir; Paul, Binny M.; Nostikasai, Dian; Tayyebi, Ali & Kharel, Gehandra
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Central Independent School District Academic Excellence Indicators Report: 1992-1993 (open access)

East Central Independent School District Academic Excellence Indicators Report: 1992-1993

Annual report about the overall condition of the East Central Independent School District in San Antonio, providing statistics and assessments for the 1992-1993 school year.
Date: August 19, 1993
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.). East Central Independent School District.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Health Service Delivery Systems for the San Antonio Model Neighborhood Area (open access)

Health Service Delivery Systems for the San Antonio Model Neighborhood Area

This report proposes a plan which will adequately provide for the delivery of comprehensive health services to the urban poor living within the Model Neighborhood Area.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History