Cultural Resources Survey within the Proposed High School #5 Tract, Mansfield, Texas (open access)

Cultural Resources Survey within the Proposed High School #5 Tract, Mansfield, Texas

A report of an investigation performed to determine if cultural resources were present for the proposed construction of High School #5 in Mansfield.
Date: June 27, 2008
Creator: Todd, Jesse
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truck for Railway-Carriages. (open access)

Truck for Railway-Carriages.

Patent for an improved truck for railway carriages that is meant "to construct surface-rollers which have their center of bearing above the center of the traction of surface roller, and which have traction rollers bearing upon the upper portion of the main surface-roller, and upon which the load is supported equally upon two points of the surface or traction roller" (lines 17-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Attachment to Hearths. (open access)

Ventilating Attachment to Hearths.

Patent for a new and improved ventilating attachment for hearths. This design "consists in extending the ventilating box or casing . . . sufficiently below the floor of the room to the hearth to which it is applied to allow it to project into the room below" (lines 19-23).
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Howard, Joshua Eaffrom
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History