Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "pin-and-link car-couplings to enable the same to couple automatically and to be readily uncoupled without going between cars, and to provide means for holding the link in substantially a horizontal position for guiding it into the mouth of a draw-head to avoid going between cars and guiding the link by hand." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1897
Creator: Allen, George F.; Allen, Charles D. & Martin, Richard W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Level and Try Square (open access)

Combined Level and Try Square

Patent for a combined level and try square tool. Illustrations are included.
Date: June 18, 1909
Creator: Blackwell, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Desk and Seat (open access)

Combined Desk and Seat

Patent for combination seat and desk for school installation.
Date: January 16, 1917
Creator: Bloomfield, Benjamin K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Fender. (open access)

Cultivator-Fender.

Patent for an improvement to cultivator-fenders that prevents rocks and other debris from being throws about while plowing.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Calk, Alonzo E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telegraph and Telephone Insulator. (open access)

Telegraph and Telephone Insulator.

Patent for a telegraph and telephone insulator, which prevents the wires from slipping out of the insulator by the use of grooves placed in the holder.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Copper, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Float. (open access)

Fishing-Float.

Patent for a fishing float "wherein the staff and the buoyant body of the float cooperate in a novel way to hold a line" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Davis, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neck-Yoke (open access)

Neck-Yoke

Patent for a neck-yoke or tongue attachment used to pull a vehicle or plow.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Davis, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neck-Yoke or Tongue Attachment (open access)

Neck-Yoke or Tongue Attachment

Patent for a neck-yoke or tongue attachment. It is adapted for use with any "type of breast-bar, neck-yoke, or tongue and pole equipped vehicles" (lines 12-14).
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Davis, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shepherd's Crook. (open access)

Shepherd's Crook.

Patent for a new and improved shepherd's crook. This design "has relation to shepherd's crooks; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the tapering and balanced staff, the slender neck near the head or crook, the broad bearings of the crook, and the guard-knob on the end thereof" (lines 16-21).
Date: April 3, 1883
Creator: Deland, Edward E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler. (open access)

Milk Cooler.

Patent for a new and improved milk cooler. This design consists in "the combination, with the body or frame provided with water-troughs, of the jacketed cans having the upper ends of their jackets extending into the troughs, and an air-collecting device arranged . . . to collect and direct the air against the exposed jackets" (lines 14-21).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Dodge, Frances A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus. (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design "consists, essentially, in a series of vessels surrounded or enveloped by fibrous material, dipping into a water-vessel above, and serving to maintain a constant supply of water to the exterior of the vessels through capillary action, the water being caused to pass down in such quantity as to drip from the bottoms of the vessels and collect in a second tank supplying a second series of vessels in the same manner, and finally to collect in a suitable vessel below, intermediate filtering apparatus being provided or not, as required" (lines 9-20).
Date: January 1, 1884
Creator: Dodge, Frances A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus. (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Patent for a refrigerating apparatus that consists of a circular table that has a reservoir in its middle and jars mounted on fibrous mats and secured in a grid around the reservoir. Fibrous bags surround the jars and the excess material is gathered and goes into the reservoir.
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Dodge, Israel A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appliance for Training Horses. (open access)

Appliance for Training Horses.

Patent for a new and improved appliance for training horses. This design "consists, essentially, in a leg-halter composed of chains or ropes connected by a common ring, or otherwise, and connected with gyves or shackles to encircle the pastern of each leg, a yoke or frame placed upon the withers, or forward or back thereof, and provided with a clamp, and a band passing through the clamp and down to one of the shackles, or to the horse's leg, the other end being carried to a convenient point to be passed by the trainer or attendant" (lines 9-20).
Date: August 10, 1886
Creator: Dodge, Israel Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region F, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region F, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Water plan for Region F describing water supply locations and suppliers, the general state of the water supply in the area, forecasts for future usage numbers, management and conservation plans for both suppliers and users in each county, impacts of implementation of the water plan, and the plan making process.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region F, 2016, Volume II. Appendices (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region F, 2016, Volume II. Appendices

Appendices of the water plan for Region F including cost estimates, water management strategies, comments and answers related to the plan, survey results, drought triggers, and related reports.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder. (open access)

Sash-Holder.

Patent for a window sash holder, which is thinner and fits more easily in shallower recesses.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Gabbart, Elihu E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scale Beam (open access)

Scale Beam

Patent for sclae beam that is used to weigh bales of cotton.
Date: January 23, 1917
Creator: Gattis, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Horse Powers (open access)

Attachment For Horse Powers

Patent for attachment for horse powers. This invention is an attachment for the power transmission for hay presses. Illustration included.
Date: May 31, 1904
Creator: Gentry, Arthur Q. & Burk, Jasper A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bluff Creek 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: 1973
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bluff Creek Quadrangle

Satellite image 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: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bluff Creek 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 1:24000
Date: 1976
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bluff Creek 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 1:24000
Date: 2012
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady

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 1:100000
Date: 1985
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brady

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 1:100000
Date: 1992
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History