Electric Car Brake. (open access)

Electric Car Brake.

Patent for a new and improved electric car brake. This design "consists in a combination . . . of a friction-wheel mounted on a laterally-adjustable vertical shaft, provided at its upper end with a beveled cog-wheel, engaging with a beveled cog-wheel on a horizontal shaft, journaled in the under side of the car-floor, on which horizontal shaft is loosely mounted a worm, which engages with a worm-wheel mounted on [a] shaft . . . when this worm is locked on the shaft . . . the brake-chain will be wound on the shaft of the worm-wheel, and the brakes will be applied" (lines 10-23).
Date: September 26, 1882
Creator: Conover, Philip Vorus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
News Drop, Issue 4, September 2023 (open access)

News Drop, Issue 4, September 2023

Quarterly newsletter of the Edwards Aquifer Authority discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to programs, projects, and topics related to water management and conservation.
Date: September 2023
Creator: Edwards Aquifer Authority (Tex.). Communications and Development Department
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
News Drop, September 2022 (open access)

News Drop, September 2022

Quarterly newsletter of the Edwards Aquifer Authority discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to programs, projects, and topics related to water management and conservation.
Date: September 2022
Creator: Edwards Aquifer Authority (Tex.). Communications and Development Department
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Water Levels, Pumpage and Chemical Analyses of Water from the Carizzo Aquifer in the Winter Garden Area, Texas, 1970 through 1977 (open access)

Records of Wells, Water Levels, Pumpage and Chemical Analyses of Water from the Carizzo Aquifer in the Winter Garden Area, Texas, 1970 through 1977

Updates records in the ground-water pumpage,water level monitoring programs and continues the water quality monitoring program.
Date: September 1980
Creator: Elder, Glenward R.; Duffin, Gail L. & Rodriguez, Eulogio, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Clamp. (open access)

Rail-Clamp.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rail clamps or braces, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 27, 1898
Creator: Henigan, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Resources of the Carrizo Aquifer in the Winter Garden Area of Texas: Volume 1 (open access)

Ground-Water Resources of the Carrizo Aquifer in the Winter Garden Area of Texas: Volume 1

Report on the ground-water resources of the Winter Garden area of Texas, their recharge rates, annual precipitation, declining water levels, and more.
Date: September 1976
Creator: Klemt, William B.; Duffin, Gail L. & Elder, Glenward R.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, September 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, September 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper South Texas area.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench (open access)

Pipe-Wrench

Patent for a pipe wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Tiner, John Francis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History