Automatic Blast-Generator. (open access)

Automatic Blast-Generator.

Patent for "a new and improved automatic blast-generator designed for the use of jewelers, dentists, and other persons, and arranged to produce a steady and uniform blast and to permit of increasing or decreasing the force of the blast as required, according to the nature of the work on hand." (Lines 9-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1897
Creator: Sidwell, Aaron M., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7433 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7433

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: The Nepotism Statute as it affects the Tax Assessor-Collector of Rusk County, and the wife of the Tax Assessor-Collector's wife's nephew by marriage.
Date: October 10, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, Henderson sheet

Map displays soil types along with bayous, creeks, ponds, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: October 25, 1907
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of the Henderson area, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of the Henderson area, Texas

Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of the Henderson area in Texas.
Date: October 25, 1907
Creator: Ely, Charles W. & Kocher, A. E. (Arthur E.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Seal. (open access)

Car-Door Seal.

Patent for a lockable seal to be affixed to doors of passenger cars.
Date: October 20, 1916
Creator: Wright, Memory G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Puller. (open access)

Automobile-Puller.

Patent for "the provision of a device adapted to be secured on the hub of the wheel for pulling the automobile out of mud or sand where the wheel would ordinarily spin without propelling the vehicle" (lines 11-16). It also includes an illustration.
Date: October 25, 1921
Creator: Wright, Joseph H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Motor (open access)

Water Motor

Patent for a water motor. This is an invention for a type of motor operated by tidal power.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Brooks, Jesse W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heel-Sweep Brace. (open access)

Heel-Sweep Brace.

Patent for heel-sweep brace "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments to cultivators for strengthening the heel sweep thereof and prevent the same from rocking upon the foot."(lines 15-19)
Date: October 2, 1917
Creator: Goodlett, Henry Jimison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scale (open access)

Scale

Patent for a scale used to cut a precise amount of meat for customers from a larger piece of meat.
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Jones, Jack H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in a jointed rod which has its lower end fastened to one of the hooks of the coupling and its upper end fastened to a vertically-moving ring that slides upon the brake-rod, whereby the coupling hook can be raised upward and supported in such a position that it will not couple when the cars run together" (lines 14-20).
Date: October 12, 1880
Creator: Haltom, Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History