Soil survey of Brazos County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of Brazos County, Texas

Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Brazos County, Texas.
Date: July 10, 1916
Creator: Veatch, J. O. (Jethro Otto) & Waldrop, C. S.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, Brazos County sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, rivers, farms, towns, churches, schools, colleges, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Gives soil profiles (3 feet deep).
Date: July 10, 1916
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refining a Methodology for Determining the Economic Impacts of Transportation Improvements (open access)

Refining a Methodology for Determining the Economic Impacts of Transportation Improvements

Report discusses the methodology for determining the economic impacts of transportation improvements by the Texas Transportation Institute and develops a consistent methodology for use by transportation departments.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Ellis, David R.; Glover, Brianne & Norboge, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Activating Teens to Prevent Traffic Crashes (open access)

Activating Teens to Prevent Traffic Crashes

Document discussing methods for preventing traffic crashes by American teenagers.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Henk, Russell H.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Enhancement and Outreach for the Active Management Screening Tool (open access)

Enhancement and Outreach for the Active Management Screening Tool

This document reports on the enhancement of and outreach for an active management screening tool. The purpose of the Active Management Screening Tool (AMST) is to help agencies better assess the potential of active management strategies for their region within the congestion management process (CMP). It is structured to provide beneficial information and guidance related to active management strategies in all areas and levels of transportation planning." (Abstract).
Date: July 2012
Creator: Kuhn, Beverly T. & Jasek, Debbie
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transportation Workforce Development : Sustaining and Expanding High School Outreach Programs and Multi-agency Partnerships: Final Report (open access)

Transportation Workforce Development : Sustaining and Expanding High School Outreach Programs and Multi-agency Partnerships: Final Report

This document reports on a multi-university partnered project that focuses on producing high-quality transportation professionals from underrepresented groups. This project redesigned and expanded the Summer Transportation Institute (STI) Scholars program created with previous funding from this sponsor; its goal is to motivate students to take an interest in civil engineering and transportation careers."(p. 1).
Date: July 2012
Creator: Kommalapati, Raghava Rao; Ramalingam, Radhakrishnan & Stockton, William R.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tierra Grande, Volume 13, Number 3, July 2006 (open access)

Tierra Grande, Volume 13, Number 3, July 2006

This is a quarterly journal provided to real estate licensees covering information related to various aspects of real estate buying and ownership in Texas. Articles in this issue cover retirement of Dr. Wayne Etter, economic effects of a real estate project, economy changes demands changes in real estate, Certificates of Convenience and Necessity (CNN's), past yield patterns, commute time influencing homebuyers, unionization and the bottom line, domestic migration, and foreclosure for dummies.
Date: July 2006
Creator: Texas A & M University. Real Estate Center.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tierra Grande, Volume 8, Number 3, July 2001 (open access)

Tierra Grande, Volume 8, Number 3, July 2001

This is a quarterly journal provided to real estate licensees covering information related to various aspects of real estate buying and ownership in Texas. Articles in this issue covers the deregulation of electric utilities, wind power, rural property developers water supply options, FHA Loans, Texas' economy slowing, rural subdivisions in countrified atmosphere, novice home buyers, Texas Veterans Land Board uses, changing demographics in Texas, and ownership and uses of surface water.
Date: July 2001
Creator: Texas A & M University. Real Estate Center.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide (open access)

Insecticide

Patent for a compound for destroying weevils, rats and mice.
Date: July 11, 1882
Creator: Wheeler, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Half-Car Unloader. (open access)

Half-Car Unloader.

Patent for the improvement of Half-Car Unloaders as it "relates to the handling of material in bulk and has special reference to a device arranged to enable railroad cars such as are sued for hauling coal, ore, and other like material to be unloaded by a single operation." (lines 13-18)
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Scardino, Mariano P. & Scardino, Peter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "has for its object to produce a plow which shall scour or clean itself readily in sticky soil and shall be Light of draft. To this end it consists in the construction and combination of the point and mold-board of a plow" (lines 8-13).
Date: July 3, 1883
Creator: Simpson, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History