Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Kelly, George A. & G. A. Kelly Plow Company
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4664 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4664

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the facts submitted can the district attorney of Gregg County join pro form in the execution of a deed by his wife, conveying the property now designated as her separate property without violating Article 373, of the Penal Code, and a related question?
Date: July 8, 1942
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way. (open access)

Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way.

Patent for a device to automatically take photographs of persons as they walk over a pressure sensor. The inventor suggests the device be used for ticket fare enforcement.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Intensive Archeological Survey of the City of Longview 12-inch Diameter Water Line from the Garland Road/Estes Drive Intersection to the Booster Pump Station at the East Texas Regional Airport, Longview, Gregg County, Texas (open access)

Intensive Archeological Survey of the City of Longview 12-inch Diameter Water Line from the Garland Road/Estes Drive Intersection to the Booster Pump Station at the East Texas Regional Airport, Longview, Gregg County, Texas

Report describing an archaelogical survey of an area near Longview, Texas, including a background literature search, an interview with a pertinent landowner, and a pedestrian survey with shovel testing of the entire water line corridor.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Ralph, Ronald W.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Upper East Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Upper East Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Upper East Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: July 2002
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Pocket. (open access)

Watch-Pocket.

Patent for a holder or pocket for a watch that provides a simple, safe, and handy device which is detachable fastened to a garment.
Date: July 24, 1906
Creator: Greenwald, Louis.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine. (open access)

Washing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists "[i]n a washing-machine, the combination of the suds-box with an open-bottomed perforated inner casing, smaller in dimensions than the suds-box, and having supports to raise it above the bottom of the suds-box, and a perforated rubber, the upper wash-board or rubber provided with flanges fitting over the inner casing, the intermediate frame and operating lever" (lines 12-20).
Date: July 29, 1884
Creator: Lee, Joseph Green
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History