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Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-945
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 legality of the County Attorney serving as a trustee of the municipality controlled public schools at Gainesville.
Date:
November 17, 1949
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bill-Posting Blanking Device.
Patent for bill-posting blanking device for applying strips of paper to bill-boards.
Date:
November 20, 1917
Creator:
Gallia, Paul
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail Clamp
Patent for a simple, durable and adjustable guard rail clamp for securing guard rails to the main rails of a railroad track "as at bridge approaches and opposite to frog points" (lines 11-12) without the use of drill bolt-holes.
Date:
November 28, 1905
Creator:
Butcher, Jasper; Thomas, James L. & Butcher, Jasper
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floating Body.
Patent for improvements to balloons or floating bodies in order to provide for a floating body "consisting of a flexible air or gas receiver, made to imitate or resemble animate or inanimate objects, so as to assume when inflated the shape of a human head or bust, birds, statues, animals, or any other desired object" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
Date:
November 20, 1900
Creator:
Bailey, Edward Gray
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Office Case.
Patent for a new and improved carrying case for mail. This design calls for a metal cylinder with twenty-six compartments (one for each English letter) around a central compartment. The compartments may be rotated to gain access to any of them via hinged doors at the top of the case.
Date:
November 2, 1880
Creator:
Crowder, John R. & Haile, James Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Teaching Penmanship.
Patent for a device for teaching penmanship, which holds the hand in the correct writing position.
Date:
November 23, 1909
Creator:
Smith, Sidney R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "having [a] bell-mouthed draw-head, pin, plane-faced link, spring, and slide, having transverse plane face laterally secured in the draw-head by means of side guide-plates, [and] inlet into rabbets" (lines 85-90).
Date:
November 7, 1882
Creator:
Saxon, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History