Bed Rail Fastener (open access)

Bed Rail Fastener

Patent for a bed rail fastener. "The purpose of this invention is to provide novel features of construction for a bed rail fastener, which afford a very secure connection of the ends of the side rails of a metal bedstead with the head and foot posts of the bed." (lines 9-14). Illustration included.
Date: May 11, 1909
Creator: Berry, Thomas O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 489, Chapter 16 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 489, Chapter 16

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 87 in Howard County as the William B. Crooker Memorial Highway.
Date: May 15, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating the Ground Water Resources of the High Plains of Texas: Volume 1 (open access)

Evaluating the Ground Water Resources of the High Plains of Texas: Volume 1

First volume of a report documenting a study to map the High Plains aquifer and obtain data about various measurements and aspects of the aquifer. This volume provides "interpretive information presented as text and related tables and regional figures."
Date: May 1984
Creator: Knowles, Tommy; Nordstrom, Phillip & Klemt, William B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: The West Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: The West Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the West Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel equipped with a substitute for the pneumatic tire. This wheel will have an inner and outer hub, spaced from each other and adapted to undergo relative motion, coiled springs being mounted radially upon the outer hub which serve to communicate rotation from one hub to the other.
Date: May 14, 1912
Creator: Wylie, Alfred R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard (open access)

Cattle-Guard

Patent for a cattle-guard "for preventing cattle from straying from a wagon-road into the inclosures along railroad-tracks." (line 11-13)
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Welsh, George G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History