1987-88 Evaluation Topics Report to The State Board of Education (open access)

1987-88 Evaluation Topics Report to The State Board of Education

Report that evaluates the effects of the Texas Council on Vocational Education's Master Plan, which intended to help graduated high school students be better prepared for entering the work force.
Date: June 11, 1988
Creator: Texas Council on Vocational Education
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4, Chapter 204 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4, Chapter 204

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to reform of certain procedures and remedies in civil actions.
Date: June 11, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 14, Chapter 206 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 14, Chapter 206

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to certain insurance rates, forms, and practices; providing penalties
Date: June 11, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 127, Chapter 207 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 127, Chapter 207

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the handling, settling, and use of certain claims in the insurance business; providing penalties.
Date: June 11, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 792, Chapter 264 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 792, Chapter 264

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the authority of certain counties and other entities with respect to certain transportation projects and to comprehensive development agreements with regard to such projects; authorizing the issuance of bonds; providing penalties.
Date: June 11, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 643, Chapter 284 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 643, Chapter 284

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the protection and care of individuals with mental retardation and to certain legal protections for individuals with disabilities; providing criminal penalties.
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1174, Chapter 495 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1174, Chapter 495

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the expiration of a county burn ban.
Date: June 11, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 2065, Chapter 434 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 2065, Chapter 434

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the rights of certain religious organizations and individuals relating to a marriage that violates a sincerely held religious belief.
Date: June 11, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Colter-Clamp (open access)

Adjustable Colter-Clamp

Patent for a colter clamp that may be fastened to a plow beam. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Allin, Joseph H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for an airship that is equipped with gas bags to control the ascent and descent of the airship and make it float in case of landing in the water.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Bradshaw, John F. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Freezing Tank Valve. (open access)

Anti-Freezing Tank Valve.

Patent for a new and improved tank valve. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the tank, its valve and lever, and valve-rod, of the frost-chamber having an annular space to receive the non-freezing compound, the stuffing-box around the rod and screw-threaded at the ends, and the screw-threaded caps . . . having necks and flanges" (lines 7-13).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Barrett, William Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blind Stop. (open access)

Blind Stop.

Patent for a new and improved blind stop. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a shutter provided with pivotal slats, of a flat spring-metal fastening-plate provided with a slot for clearing the slat-pivot, and projections upon its surface for engaging with the end of the slat, and having its rear end secured to the shutter-frame and its front end projecting beyond the plane of the shutter-frame and forming a thumb-piece for operating said spring-plate" (lines 59-67).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Wesson, Miley B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Patent for a machine that exterminates boll weevils. This machine employs air suction for drawing boll weevils into a retaining box from which they may be removed for destruction.
Date: June 11, 1918
Creator: Stubs, Orace Virgil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
BRAC 2005 Report to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission: Army Justification Book (open access)

BRAC 2005 Report to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission: Army Justification Book

Disregard Restriction Header and Footer - Red River Army Depot, TX- Impacted Sites: McAlester, OK; Anniston, AL; Blue Grass, KY; Letterkenny, PA; Red River, TX; Tinker, OK; Tobyhanna, PA; MCLB Albany, GA;
Date: June 11, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a simple, efficient, and improved churn that thoroughly aerating and stirring the cream. It has a removable vertical dasher and two dasher cups.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clinical Thermometer. (open access)

Clinical Thermometer.

Patent for a new and improved thermometer. This design has "[u]pon the body of the instrument a scale, preferably equivalent to the centigrade . . . in which the zero-sign is placed at the normal temperature of the body, each degree being divided into five or ten parts according to the size of the instrument and reading supernormal and subnormal degrees" (lines 20-26).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Hunstock, Robert H. & Chávez, Emigdio
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Ventilated Crate (open access)

Collapsible Ventilated Crate

Patent for a collapsible vented crate for that does not require special machinery to build.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Williams, Lewie A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion. (open access)

Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion.

Patent for cheap, effective compound to sprinkle on coal to render it more combustible so that it burns more cleanly and soot is not emitted.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Stokey, David Gray
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Concrete Wall Mold. (open access)

Concrete Wall Mold.

Patent for "a concrete wall mold which is so constructed as to produce a very strong wall having vertically extended channels which form ribs materially reinforcing the structure" (lines 10-14)
Date: June 11, 1920
Creator: Porter, Charles S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for a corn and cotton planter that can plant two rows at a time.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Hooper, Martin T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Carrier. (open access)

Cotton Carrier.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-carrier. This design consists in "the bottom having the ridged portion and the oppositely-inclined portions, said bottom being provided with a hook in front, the upright post in front for holding the lines, the posts upon the sides near the front, to which the mouth of the bag is secured to be held open, and the upright posts on the sides in the rear of the posts for holding the bags when filled" (lines 78-85).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Smith, Robert Toumbleson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "a draft-bar, a connecting rod or bar which connects the two beams together at any suitable distance . . . vertical standards which are secured to the rear ends of the beams, adjustable connecting-bars . . . and a connecting-rod which connects the bars together in a line with the beams . . . to loosely attach two cultivators to a single draft-bar, and then connect these two cultivators together . . . [so] each of the cultivators has a universal movement independently of the other, and yet they are always kept at about the same distance apart" (lines 15-32).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: De Witt, Martin V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Foot (open access)

Cultivator Foot

Patent for a cultivator foot. Illustration included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detergent Compound. (open access)

Detergent Compound.

Patent for an all-purpose detergent composed of water, lye, ammonia, borax, indigo, and mountain balm. Includes instructions.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Fair, William Brownlow
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History