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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
Churn
Patent for a churn with a dasher with blades that is able to rotate to force the milk or cream in an upward and downward direction. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for an improved cotton elevator, separator, and distributor that is meant to move cotton from a wagon or storage, remove dirt, and deliver it to a gin. The "improved apparatus comprises a pneumatic cotton-conveying tube by which the cotton is lifted or carried to the distributor, a separator for removing the cotton from the air current, and a distributor comprising a trunk for receiving the cotton from the separator extending over the two gin feeders, having openings delivering into the feeders, and an endless chain conveyer moving in said trunk, causing the cotton to travel along therein and drop out therefrom through the delivery openings into the feeders" (lines 16-27).
Date:
October 31, 1893
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A. & Clark, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Impregnating Liquids with Gases.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for impregnating liquids with gases. This design "relates to apparatus for impregnating water or other suitable liquid with the fumes emanating from the consumption of a combustible composition of matter, such as sulphur, which when ignited emits a gas containing suitable medicinal qualities" (lines 14-19). It consists in "the closed reservoir for containing the liquid, having windows upon opposite walls thereof, of the transverse beam having its ends supported in said windows, the sulphur-containing vessel . . . the man-hole, the air-hole, and cocks" (lines 4-10).
Date:
October 8, 1889
Creator:
Radam, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bullet.
Patent for a new and improved bullet. This design calls for a cavity at the base of the bullet and a tube of flexible material to be inserted snugly into the cavity. This results in less wobbling after the bullet has been fired.
Date:
October 12, 1880
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a combination tool that is "adapted without changing any of its parts to operate as a nut and pipe wrench, pliers, hammer, screw-driver, and nail-extractor." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Armstrong, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1115
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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May Travis County issue bonds for the purpose of widening and improving Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin.
Date:
October 31, 1950
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-772
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 a county fund may use tax funds for the purpose of operating an ambulance service in the county or cooperate with an incorporated City in the County in the operation of such service.
Date:
October 5, 1966
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-773
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; Number of directors necessary for voluntary corporate dissolution.
Date:
October 6, 1966
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-774
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; Traveling expenses of a member of Statutory Revision Advisory Committee Created by Article 5429b-1, Vernon's Civil Statutes.
Date:
October 20, 1966
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-775
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 relate to the same assessment blanks, tax rolls, statements and reciepts for both an independent school district and the county or city, when the county or assess and collects the taxes for the school district
Date:
October 26, 1966
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-394
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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legality of the inclusion of meals and lodgings in Austin on the expense accounts of members of the State Board of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists.
Date:
October 1, 1947
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CAPCOG Connections, October 2013
Monthly newsletter of the Capital Area Council of Governments discussing news, upcoming events, and other information of relevance for regional planning in the Austin, Texas area.
Date:
October 2013
Creator:
Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Long-Term Performance of a Drilled Shaft Retaining Wall in an Expansive Clay
This technical report contains information on the long-term performance of a drilled shaft retaining wall in expansive clay.
Date:
October 2013
Creator:
Brown, Andrew C.; Dellinger, Gregory F.; El-Mohtar, Chadi; Zornberg, Jorge G. & Gilbert, Robert B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
I-35 Statewide Corridor Plan: A Path to 2040
None
Date:
October 2016
Creator:
Texas. Transportation Planning and Programming Division.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CAPCOG Connections, October/November 2010
Newsletter of the Capital Area Council of Governments containing articles and news about the civic institutions in the ten-county Capital Area. The articles included are "CAPCOG Launches Regional Training Center," "CAPCOG Regional Law Enforcement Academy Graduates Another Class," "CAPCOG Completes Provider Database to the Regional Transit Coordination Committee," "9-1-1 Awards Presented," "Medicare Health Coverage Options and Change 2010-2011," "Regional Interoperable Communications Plan Created," and "Second Annual Construction and Demolition Waste Management Summit Set."
Date:
October 2010
Creator:
Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Lytton Springs Oil Field
Report published in a scientific bulletin, describing the Lytton Springs oil fields.
Date:
October 15, 1925
Creator:
Bybee, H. P. & Short, R. T.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Coyote, Volume 2, Number 2, October 1909
Monthly literary magazine of University of Texas containing original short stories, essays, poetry, jokes, and other creative works written by students.
Date:
October 1909
Creator:
University of Texas
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Identifying-Tag.
Patent for identification tags made of sheet metal, to be used with binding bands on cotton bales. Tags are economical to make, create little waste, and lay flat so they are not easily torn off.
Date:
October 4, 1921
Creator:
Blackburn, Edward Stuart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Capitol Guide: 1987
Tourist guide to the Texas state Capitol in Austin, including floorplans of the capitol building and descriptions of "points of interest" and visiting hours as well as a map of the area surrounding the capitol and descriptions of nearby buildings, statues, and other landmarks.
Date:
October 1987
Creator:
Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Spraying Liquids And Powders.
Patent for a new and useful machine for spraying liquids and powers for " destroying insects and capable of spraying both liquid and powder separately or simultaneously" (line 13 - 16).
Date:
October 10, 1899
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Writing Pen.
Patent for a new and improved pen. This design has for its object "to provide a simple implement which may be readily employed for writing purposes; and it consists in a thimble-like sleeve having a writing-pen arranged at its outer end, adapted to be easily applied to the index or fore-finger; and it further consists in the peculiar construction of implement" (lines 7-14).
Date:
October 16, 1888
Creator:
Seabaugh, Conrad
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flat-Irons.
Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Sterzing, Fred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compositions Used as Building Materials.
Patent for making a new kind of building and fencing materials by using farm waste and inorganic settable ingredients such as quick-lime, clay or soil. No illustration.
Date:
October 12, 1858
Creator:
Raymond, N. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History