80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 55 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 55

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives recognizing Andrew C. Solomon for being elected student government president at The University of Texas at Austin.
Date: May 10, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Street Car Motor. (open access)

Street Car Motor.

Patent for a new and improved street-car motor. This design consists in "the shaft geared to an axle of the car, the friction-wheels free to slide on the said shaft and having the annular collars, the rods . . . connected to the said annular collars, and the lever connected to the said rods to move the friction-wheels toward or from each other" (lines 16-22).
Date: May 10, 1887
Creator: Sparks, John Parks
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Trip Mechanism (open access)

Spring Trip Mechanism

Patent for a spring trip mechanism for plows. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1910
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark & Bell, William G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Money Changer and Counter. (open access)

Money Changer and Counter.

Patent for a new and improved money changer and counter. This design "is to provide novel means for automatically assorting coins of different denominations . . . [and] to provide a series of graded pockets for the reception and retention of different coins of different denominations, and which will receive the coin only of the denomination for which it is provided; to provide novel means for discharging a coin of a given denomination from its pocket in order to make the proper change, and which will only discharge one coin at a time to prevent too much money from being delivered" (lines 15-30).
Date: May 10, 1887
Creator: Greer, John William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History