Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions (open access)

Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions

Patent for "new and useful Imporivements in Processes of Recovering Precious Metals from Their Solutions, and which I designate as the 'Sulfuric-Acid Process;' [...] to separate the precious metals from their cyanid solutions in a rapid and thorough matter and to recover the precious metals from solutions thereof." (lines 5-8 & 22-26)
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Bahn, Gustavus A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shutter Slat Fastener (open access)

Shutter Slat Fastener

Patent for a shutter slat fastener. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: Basnett, Augustus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus. (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Patent for an economic and durable refrigerating apparatus that cools food by "reducing the temperature of the air in a partially closed chamber by the evaporation of water brought about through the medium of capillary attraction, and likewise to provide for automatically maintaining a predetermined level of water in the water chamber of the apparatus, and a thorough ventilation of the refrigerating chamber thereof" (lines 16-24).
Date: October 23, 1894
Creator: Carleton, Ernest William & Odell, James Madison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment. (open access)

Cultivator Attachment.

Patent for an invention "whereby a wheel-cultivator of any style, pattern, or make can be readily converted into a land-marker or planter." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1897
Creator: Dayton, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter.
Date: June 23, 1874
Creator: Domschke, Carles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plumber's Ferrule (open access)

Plumber's Ferrule

Patent fora plumber's ferrule. Illustration included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Donnelly, John Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper designed so that the blade moves "transversely across a standing row of plants" (lines 15-16). Illustrations included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Ellis, Thomas Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher (open access)

Churn-Dasher

Patent for an improved churn dasher "to thoroughly agitate the cream at the center of the churn-body and also around the bottom of the walls thereof" (lines 13-15) and "also to cause tangential streams or currents at the bottom of the churn, so as to thoroughly agitate all of the cream and effectively intermingle the air therewith" (lines 18-22), including illustrations.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Franklin, Edward R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Submerged Current - Motor. (open access)

Submerged Current - Motor.

Patent for a new and useful submerged current motor, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Hardaway, Robert Early
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Hogan, Samuel Thomas; Knetsch, Ferdinand, Jr. & Oatman, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Cracking Machine. (open access)

Nut-Cracking Machine.

Patent for a machine that helps crack and break down nuts for processing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dinner Bucket. (open access)

Dinner Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved lunch bucket. This design consists in a "base-plate having sleeves upon two of its opposite edges, two rectangular-shaped bails secured at one end in said sleeves, the upper ends of each of said bails being bent inward or toward each other, the upper end of one of said bails being shorter than the other and bent slightly upward, and means for securing the upper ends of said bails together" (lines 1-8).
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Lederle, Edward Emil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.

Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: McRae, Daniel M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Generating Oil Burner (open access)

Generating Oil Burner

Patent for generating oil burner. This invention "relates to apparatus by which steam is generated and petroleum or a hydrocarbon reduced to vaporous condition and mixed or combined with the steam" (line 8-12). Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Spiller, Philip Samuel & Haldeman, Horace P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-273 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-273

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of Texas Technical College to purchase and cancel its Constitutional Tax Bonds.
Date: June 23, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-765 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-765

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the fact that Vernon W. Dozier and Rosetta Bryant filed joint income tax returns as husband and wife is sufficient proof that Dozier and Rosetta entered into a common law marriage so as to classify Rosetta as Class "A" beneficiary
Date: September 23, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-766 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-766

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Questions relating to taking blood samples from a person suspected of driving while under the influence of intoxicating beverages.
Date: September 23, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-767 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-767

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Timeliness and legal sufficiency of submitted petition of an independent candidate for office of Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 of Jim Wells County.
Date: September 23, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2559, Chapter 104 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2559, Chapter 104

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to leases and other agreements relating to real property entered into by certain hospital districts.
Date: May 23, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the 45th day of the regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: April 23, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, First Called Session, Sunday, June 23, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, First Called Session, Sunday, June 23, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the fourth day of the First Called session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: June 23, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brick Machine. (open access)

Brick Machine.

Patent for a new and improved brick machine. This design consists in "a mold-wheel mounted to revolve in the horizontal plane and provided with mold-cavities, of a vertically-movable plunger in each cavity, a door for each cavity hinged on the top of the wheel, the hinge plate or lug attached to the mold-wheel being slotted to allow a vertical movement of the hinge-pin, a curved arm pivoted over the top of the mold-wheel and extending over part of the same, and a spring acting on the swinging end of said curved arm" (lines 80-90).
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Thaison, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2013, Volume 1 (open access)

University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2013, Volume 1

This document provides data about the appropriations and expenditures of the University of Texas at Austin for the the fiscal year ending August 31, 2013.
Date: August 23, 2012
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2013, Volume 2 (open access)

University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2013, Volume 2

This document provides data about the appropriations and expenditures of the University of Texas at Tyler for the the fiscal year ending August 31, 2013.
Date: August 23, 2012
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History