80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 190 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 190

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating the Greater Austin Crime Commission on its 10th anniversary and recognizing the Longhorn Leaders.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 57 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 57

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to designating February 2007 as Black History Month in Texas.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 59 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 59

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to in memory of Brigadier General Robert F. McDermott of San Antonio.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 60 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 60

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to honoring attorney Al Kauffman for his vital contributions in the areas of education and civil rights.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 74 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 74

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating the Cotulla High School football team on an exceptional 2006 season.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 83 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 83

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to honoring Hector Trevino on the occasion of his retirement from the U.S. Border Patrol.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 98 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 98

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to in memory of James DeAnda of Houston, retired chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 462, Chapter 14 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 462, Chapter 14

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the allocation of revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax for the arts for certain municipalities.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 505, Chapter 15 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 505, Chapter 15

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to access to criminal history record information by the Guardianship Certification Board.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 506, Chapter 16 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 506, Chapter 16

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to provisional certification for certain guardians.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 670, Chapter 17 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 670, Chapter 17

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to allowing an independent school district to change the length of trustees' terms.
Date: April 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Arresters. (open access)

Improvement in Spark-Arresters.

Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date: April 25, 1876
Creator: Liscow, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition. (open access)

Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.

Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
Date: April 25, 1876
Creator: Allison, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fan (open access)

Improvement in Automatic Fan

Patent for improvement in automatic fans, specifically of a fan attached to a pendulum of a clock mechanism.
Date: April 25, 1876
Creator: Gollner, Ervin G. & Fretz, Emil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Faucet and Automatic Toy. (open access)

Combined Faucet and Automatic Toy.

Patent for a new and improved faucet with a toy attachment. This design "relates to faucets for soda-fountains and the like; and it consists in providing the same with a jointed figure or automaton adapted to be operated by the escaping fluid" (lines 21-25).
Date: April 25, 1882
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an animal trap meant to trap animals that burrow in the ground, such as prairie dogs. The trap catches the animal when it leaves its den and the animal cannot escape the trap.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Manning, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Mosquito-Canopy. (open access)

Adjustable Mosquito-Canopy.

Patent for an adjustable, simple, and easily used mosquito-canopy for beds that fits over any style and size of bed, and is easily removed.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Eva, Addison H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that "couples automatically and by which a brakeman on a single car can uncouple one or more cars and to provide pipe connections between the cars for this and other purposes" (lines 9-13). It has a pivoted drawhead with lever connections to a piston head and uses steam connections with the cylinder in the piston head to couple.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Headlight. (open access)

Locomotive-Headlight.

Patent for an independent reservoir lamp for locomotive head lights. "?The conduit by which the reservoir and burner communicate is liable to be obstructed with sediment which not only interferes with the suitable flow of oil but corrodes the metal and necessitates repairs" (lines 13-17). The invention is convenient to use and inexpensive.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Owens, Thomas B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp and Reflector for Same. (open access)

Lamp and Reflector for Same.

Patent for a new combination oil lamp and reflector. This design "has for its object the production of a lamp and a reflector adapted the one to the other, and in such points of construction as shall contribute to the effectiveness of both, in that no part of the former obstructs the rays of light reflected by the other, and both shall be of simple and cheap construction; and [it] consists in certain devices and combinations of devices" (lines 20-28).
Date: April 25, 1882
Creator: Cotton, Patrick H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester (open access)

Spark-Arrester

Patent for new and useful device capable of arresting sparks and returning them to the smoke arch.
Date: April 25, 1882
Creator: Lochner, Casper F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pumping-Engine. (open access)

Pumping-Engine.

Patent for a pumping engine that uses a "combined piston rod and plunger acting in the same vertical line and carrying a crank pin box and cross heads for driving the governing fly wheel" (lines 12-15). Mounting and dismounting this engine is simple, and the engine has easily accessible packing ends of the steam and water cylinders. Also, the adjustable yoke is improved in this engine.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Clarkson, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swinging Gate. (open access)

Swinging Gate.

Patent for a swinging gate that consists of a supporting post, a gate, a hinge that connects the gate to the post, a rear bar, a hinge lever that connects the rear gate bar to the supporting post, an operating lever, cords or chains that connect the lever and the hinge lever, and a latching mechanism.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter and Fertilizer-Distributer. (open access)

Seed-Planter and Fertilizer-Distributer.

Patent for improvements in seed planter and fertilizer distributers: "can be readily and easily adapted to planting seed in drills or check rows, or to distributing fertilizer and in which the operator can always tell where the last hill was planted so that he will know where to commence his next row" (lines 18-23).
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Kemp, Amos John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History