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Soil Survey of Archer County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Archer County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Archer County, Texas.
Date: April 1995
Creator: Daigle, Jerry J.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Balance. (open access)

Sash-Balance.

Patent for improvements in a combined sash balances and fasteners, using two sashes, a rotatable shaft, a ratchet and a friction-wheel; all these parts work together “to simplify the means whereby one sash is made to balance the other and by which either sash may be adjusted without disturbing the other.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Ingalls, Alfred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History