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Waxahachie Independent School District June 2007
This report reviews the management and performance of the Waxahachie Independent School District's (WISD's) educational, financial, and operational functions.
Date:
July 9, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 2
The second volume of a two part report on the Creataceous aquifers in Texas. This volume contains information on water wells, water levels, and chemical analyses.
Date:
July 1982
Creator:
Nordstrom, Philip L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for improvements in cotton chopping attachments for cultivators that is relatively inexpensive that is highly useful in chopping and plowing cotton plan.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Martin, William A. & Roebuck, Mathew P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Extension Covered Wagon-Bed
Patent for a knock-down wagon bed, particularly to be extensible for cotton hauling.
Date:
July 15, 1919
Creator:
Joly, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Motor Drive.
Patent for an electric-motor drive that can be used specifically with a cotton tramper, including instructions and illustrations.. This invention serves multiples methods of improvement compared to current electric-motor drives, and will make the processes its involved in more efficient, while being inexpensive to construct.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Whitt, Joseph E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antiskidding Vehicle Wheel-Tire.
Patent for an antiskidding vehicle wheel tire that has tread structure which prevents slippage or skidding of the tires on wet or icy roads.
Date:
July 15, 1913
Creator:
Dees, Mark A. & Dees, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid-Pressure Regulator
Patent for a fluid pressure regulator which regulates the supply of steam and oil to an oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Beech, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electromechanical Switch Thrower
Patent for an electromechanical switch thrower. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Posey, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Tug
Patent for a hame tug. Illustration included.
Date:
July 18, 1905
Creator:
Guthrie, Nehemiah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Engine
Patent for "useful improvements in Steam-Engines, of which the following is a specification" (lines 5-6). Includes description and illustrations.
Date:
July 10, 1905
Creator:
Murphy, Joseph F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Removing Insects From Plants Or The Like
Patent for a machine for removing insects from plants or the like. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Busseell, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planting Attachment for Cultivators
Patent for a planting attachment for cultivators. This attachment is designed to raise and lower equally to contours of the land. Illustration included.
Date:
July 14, 1903
Creator:
Benton, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "consists in the combination of a slotted lever provided with points at one end to catch against the side of the post and a hook over which one end of the chain is fastened, a sliding frame, a reel or drum, pawls, a guiding-pulley, a wire or chain, to which the clamp is secured, and a chain for fastening the stretcher to the post . . . [it] is to provide a slotted handle a sliding frame . . . so that when the strain of the wire being stretched is brought to bear upon the frame it will tighten" (lines 13-26).
Date:
July 26, 1887
Creator:
Dunbar, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay or Cotton Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists "[i]n a hay-press, the combination of the box or casing having suitable doors in its top, bottom, and side, and supported on longitudinal base-strips, a main lever having a short toggle-arm, a semi-rotating fulcrum thereof, auxiliary arms pivotally connected with the main lever, reciprocating followers, and a drum and cord" (lines 26-33).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Bragg, Thomas P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History