Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase (open access)

Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase

Patent for combined compositor's stick and type chase. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch (open access)

Automatic Switch

Patent for an automatic switch for street railways.
Date: November 30, 1909
Creator: Godoy, Jose Ma
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner And Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner And Feeder

Patent for a cotton cleaner and feeder. It is designed with an intermediate of a chute and cotton-gin to feed the cotton to the gin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Seward, Marion F. & Seward, Joseph H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy For Beds, Couches, &C. (open access)

Canopy For Beds, Couches, &C.

Patent for a new and useful canopy for beds, couches, and analogous furniture, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Owen, Peer M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Candy Pulling Machine (open access)

Candy Pulling Machine

Patent for candy pulling machine. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Jenner, Edward J. & Hildreth, Herbert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and useful churn, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1899
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Banana-Case (open access)

Banana-Case

Patent for a banana case to "provide a case or crate in which bananas may be readily packed and transported without injury to the fruit."
Date: November 13, 1888
Creator: Aiken, Robert H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Sand and Gravel Washer (open access)

Combined Sand and Gravel Washer

Patent for "a combined gravel and sand washing box which shall effectually serve as a means for practically removing all sand and dirt from gravel and stones and all mud and fine dirt from sand" (lines 30-34).
Date: November 20, 1888
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive car-coupling that improves on the pin-and-link car-couplings and "will be capable of coupling automatically and which may be readily uncoupled without going between cars" (lines 13-15). After the car has been separated, this coupling automatically puts its parts in position to be re-coupled. It also enables a "flying kick" to be transmitted to the car.
Date: November 24, 1896
Creator: Lee, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive automatically car-coupling that holds the link in a horizontal position that the operator does not need to guide the couplings by hand. It can also be uncoupled without going between the cars.
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Norcross, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pole Tip and Neck Yoke Clamp. (open access)

Combined Pole Tip and Neck Yoke Clamp.

Patent for a new combination wagon-pole tip and neck-yoke clamp. This design "provide[s] a combined wagon-pole tip or socket and neck-yoke clamp of novel construction, which can be easily attached to and detached from the pole or neck-yoke, and which, when in use, will be self-adjusting to the movements of the neck-yoke due to the motion of the team" (lines 9-15).
Date: November 14, 1882
Creator: Sibert, Francis William & Hurd, Stephen Porter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6873 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6873

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: Validity of a contract for the collection of delinquent taxes in Bexar County
Date: November 7, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4170 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4170

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: Whether Bexar County must pay expenses of holding an election to determine whether there shall be created a Junior College District of Bexar County, and related questions.
Date: November 4, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-728 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-728

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The authority of the Commissioners' Court to issue time warrants to finance improvements at Bexar County Agricultural and Livestock Exhibition Building.
Date: November 30, 1948
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake (open access)

Air-Brake

Patent for an air brake with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caster-Wheel (open access)

Caster-Wheel

Patent for a new and useful caster wheel with illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tie and Rail-Joint (open access)

Combination Tie and Rail-Joint

Patent for improvement in the safety of tie and rail-joints. Improves the connection so that independent movement of the tie and rail is reduced.
Date: November 17, 1914
Creator: Knaus, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures. (open access)

Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures.

Patent for an improvement to motion picture projectors that lowers the operating speed, thus reducing the amount of film needed for movies, and eliminates flickers in the projection. This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Sealing Tire-Punctures and the Like. (open access)

Composition for Sealing Tire-Punctures and the Like.

Patent for sealing tire punctures consisting of the extract obtained from boiling guayule and candelilla plants in water to which is added asbestos and fullers' earth.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Garza, Ricardo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compilation of the Hydrologic Data for the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio Area, Texas, 1988, with 1934-88 Summary (open access)

Compilation of the Hydrologic Data for the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio Area, Texas, 1988, with 1934-88 Summary

Compilation of records of ground-water recharge, dischagre water levels, and water quality for the Edwards Aquifer.
Date: November 1989
Creator: Malley, G. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compilation of Hydrologic Data for the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio, Texas: 1991, with 1934-91 Summary (open access)

Compilation of Hydrologic Data for the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio, Texas: 1991, with 1934-91 Summary

Compilation of hydrologic data for the Edwards Aquifer in 1991 with a summary of data from 1934-91. Includes information on groundwater recharge and discharge, water levels, water quality, maps of the San Antonio and Edwards Aquifer area, and data.
Date: November 1992
Creator: Brown, D. S.; Petri, B. L. & Nalley, G. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5934 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5934

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: As neither the original Dallas County Bonds, nor the Refunding Bonds issued in lieu thereof were authorized and issued under authority if either chapter 1 , Title 18, Revised Statutes, 1911, or Chapter 2, Title 22, Revised Statutes 1925, are the Refunding Bonds now redeemable under authority of the decision of the supreme court in Bexas County V. Sellers?
Date: November 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Historic Survey 1972 (open access)

San Antonio Historic Survey 1972

Historic survey of the city of San Antonio evaluating the expansion of the city, influences on architecture, and other factors in the history of the city.
Date: November 1972
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.). Community Renewal Program Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Proceeding: Conference on Education, November 1971 (open access)

Proceeding: Conference on Education, November 1971

A presentation of the proceedings at the "Conference on Education" held in WOAI-TV studios on November 5, 1971, in San Antonio, Texas, discussing problems, solutions, and additions to the current education system.
Date: November 5, 1971
Creator: WOAI-TV (Television station : San Antonio, Tex.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History