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Pearl 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 1:24,000
Date:
1979
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evant 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 1:24,000
Date:
1979
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ohio 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 1:24,000
Date:
1956
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Coryell County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Coryell County, Texas.
Date:
1985
Creator:
McCaleb, Nathan L.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Soil Map, Coryell County, Texas
Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:316,800
Date:
1985
Creator:
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Wiring Picket-Fences.
Patent for a new improvement in apparatus for wiring picket-fences to hold the wires tight, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Parks, James Madison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improving the way that hay bales are tied and bound. This bale tie is an addition to a previous patent (number 152,138).
Date:
June 16, 1874
Creator:
Mangham, Josiah T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pulverizing Subsoil-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in subsoil plows to pulverize soils, including illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1874
Creator:
Mangham, Josiah T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for a new cotton and corn planter, including illustrations.
Date:
May 19, 1874
Creator:
Griffith, William Harrison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for a new and improved seed-planter. Illustration included.
Date:
February 20, 1877
Creator:
Miller, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Photographers' Bath-Warmers
Patent for keeping photographers' chemicals and bath water the same temperature throughout the liquids. The patent contains instructions and illustrations for the creation and use of the invention.
Date:
March 27, 1877
Creator:
Fellrath, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters for Treating Chills and Fever.
Patent for a new medical compound to treat chills and fevers which lists the ingredients and dosages.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Owens, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Stretching Wire Fences.
Patent for stretching wire from post to post in the construction of wire fencing, which includes directions how to secure the wire, includes illustrations.
Date:
March 4, 1873
Creator:
Mangham, Josiah T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters, including illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1875
Creator:
Miller, Benjamin, F. & Reeves, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design "consists in the provision of adjustable hangers for mattress-supports" (lines 12-13). To this end, it consists, "with the side and end rails having vertical mortises or grooves, the cap-plates covering the upper ends of the grooves or mortises and having threaded apertures, and a mattress-support, of the hangers respectively comprising the vertical shank or body seated in the grooves or mortises of the rails, and the horizontal branch extending inwardly from said shank or body and having a slot to seat the side and end bars" (lines 83-93).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Currey, George Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cradle, Swing, and Clothes-Drier.
Patent for "a cradle which may be easily and quickly converted into a child's swing or into a clothes rack or drier." (Lines 10-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
McMordie, William Emmett
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for a tool that combines pincers, a hammer head, jaws, etc., to be used for fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Rubarth, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake-Lever.
Patent for a brake lever that is locked by an arc-shaped ratchet-bar. There is "a pawl loosely mounted on the rear side of said lever and bearing against said side when the brake is set, said pawl being spring-actuated to move parallel with said side and project beyond the same and contact radially with the ratchet-teeth between said yoke" (lines 25-30).
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Burkett, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car-coupling that has a "simple construction which can be operated without going between the cars both in coupling and in uncoupling, and also to provide for adjusting the height of the coupler or draw head so that cars of different heights can be readily coupled" (lines 17-22).
Date:
September 18, 1894
Creator:
Duggan, Nicholas S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for a new and improved design concerning automatic car couplings that is novel in the some of its parts.
Date:
June 17, 1890
Creator:
Bullock, Henry Purnell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bobbin Winder for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved bobbin-winder for sewing machines. This design consists in "the combination, with the shaft provided with a screw-threaded aperture at one end and having a groove formed near the other end, and a carrying pulley, of the spindle provided with a threaded extension entering said screw-threaded aperture of the shaft, said spindle having a taper and made of highly tempered metal" (lines 66-73).
Date:
August 23, 1887
Creator:
Evetts, Thomas Frankling
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemise
Patent for improvements in chemises which would relieve wearers “the annoyance of having the garment gather about the limbs while walking which often produces great embarrassment in public places.” (Lines 42-45) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Burt, Emma Ruby
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Leg.
Patent for a new and improved artificial leg. This design "consists in certain improvements in the construction and arrangement of parts in artificial legs, so as to make them more durable, easier of repair, and more comfortable to the wearer" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Wolf, Peter M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Hub.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, whereby a single damaged spoke may be removed and a new spoke inserted without releasing the several spokes comprising the wheel" (lines 11-16).
Date:
November 11, 1884
Creator:
Miller, Thomas S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History