Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a new and useful baling press, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Harrington, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot (open access)

Coffee-Pot

Patent for a simplified coffee pot that extracts coffee by using boiling water and the receptacle without changing the structure of the device.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Haley, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a new improvement in cattle guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book Type-Writer. (open access)

Book Type-Writer.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in book type writers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Johnson, Jahu W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can (open access)

Can

Patent for a can. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Hanna, Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with rotating blades.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Prokschl, Mathias
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Grubbs, Marion F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Band Replacer and Tightener. (open access)

Bale Band Replacer and Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved bale-band replacer and tightener. This design "provide[s] a simple and convenient device for replacing a broken bale-bind, for tightening the band around the bale, and for drawing the ends together, so as to provide the necessary slack for slipping the loop out of the tie when it is desired to remove a band" (lines 13-19).
Date: July 4, 1882
Creator: Lenard, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 50, Pages 6243-6358, July 4, 1997 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 50, Pages 6243-6358, July 4, 1997

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 1997
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 20, Number 51, Pages 4883-4959, July 4, 1995 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 20, Number 51, Pages 4883-4959, July 4, 1995

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 1995
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 5, Number 50, Pages 2635-2681, July 4, 1980 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 5, Number 50, Pages 2635-2681, July 4, 1980

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 1980
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 11, Number 50, Pages 3085-3113, July 4, 1986 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 11, Number 50, Pages 3085-3113, July 4, 1986

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 1986
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects. (open access)

Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Morrow, James Morton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program (open access)

Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program

This report discusses Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Act, which was enacted by the 108th Congress as Section 1057 of the FY2004 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 108-136). It includes background of the SAFER Act, appropriations from FY2010-FY2011, reauthorization of the program in the House and Senate, and information about program implementation.
Date: July 4, 2010
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 3, Number 49, Pages 2269-2331, July 4, 1978 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 3, Number 49, Pages 2269-2331, July 4, 1978

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 1978
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 14, Number 49, Pages 3227-3315, July 4, 1989 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 14, Number 49, Pages 3227-3315, July 4, 1989

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 1989
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foreign Ownership of U.S. Financial Assets: Implications of a Withdrawal (open access)

Foreign Ownership of U.S. Financial Assets: Implications of a Withdrawal

This report provides an overview of the role foreign investment plays in the U.S. economy. It also includes an assessment of possible actions a foreign investor or a group of foreign investors might choose to take to liquidate their investments in the United States.
Date: July 4, 2008
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 28, Number 27, Pages 5001-5448, July 04, 2003 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 28, Number 27, Pages 5001-5448, July 04, 2003

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 2003
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 39, Number 27, Pages 5001-5254, July 4, 2014 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 39, Number 27, Pages 5001-5254, July 4, 2014

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 2014
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: June 1989 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: June 1989

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: July 4, 1989
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 33, Number 27, Pages 5079-5428, July 4, 2008 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 33, Number 27, Pages 5079-5428, July 4, 2008

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 4, 2008
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 47, Number 26, July 4, 1987 (open access)

Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 47, Number 26, July 4, 1987

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology that lists the issues the newsletter has covered, and which volume (by week) they can be found in.
Date: July 4, 1987
Creator: Texas. Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill (open access)

Well-Drill

Patent for well drill that enables its upper end to be struck without disengaging the cable with an objective to provide simple, inexpensive, and convenient use.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Walker, Merit Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Brooks, John Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History