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79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 24
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate designating Navasota the Blues Capital of Texas.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gin-Saw-Filing Machines.
Patent for a "gin-saw-filing machine consisting, essentially, of a rotary and intermittingly movable file, of an intermittingly-operated feed and check device, and of adjustable reciprocating sharpening-files".
Date:
July 24, 1877
Creator:
Eastham, Albert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hammock or Swing.
Patent for a new and improved hammock. This design consists in "the combination of a suspended canopy, consisting of a hoop provided with screw-eyes and having a textile covering and a mosquito-netting secured thereto and depending therefrom, with a basket consisting of a hoop, a suitably-constructed bottom, a cushion, and a guard . . . and supporting-ropes secured at their lower portions to the basket and to the guard, and having snap-hooks at their upper ends adapted to engage the screw-eyes in the hoop of the canopy" (lines 5-15).
Date:
April 24, 1888
Creator:
Broderick, Martin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for improved construction and arrangement of car-couplings.
Date:
July 24, 1877
Creator:
McCarty, Ezra B. & Heagerty, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a new design of rail joints in which headed bolts and wedge plate have keyhole slots, including with illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Park, Henry J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History