Leaf Turner. (open access)

Leaf Turner.

Patent for a new and improved leaf-turner for sheet music. This design consists "of a rack having attached guides, the horizontally-slidable rods arranged in said guides, one above the other, the leaf-turning fingers carried by one end of said rods, the elastic cords connected with the other ends of said rods for retracting the fingers, devices for holding the rods against the tension of the cords, and a finger-piece for successively disengaging said holding devices" (lines 56-64).
Date: July 6, 1886
Creator: Richards, Augustus, Sr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills. (open access)

Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills.

Patent for improvement to feed mechanisms in running saw-mills, including illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1879
Creator: Fisher, Charles N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2517 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2517

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: Has the commissioners court authority to issue a franchise to a local telephone company operating outside the City of Conroe in Montgomery County?
Date: July 15, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
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
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Gulf Coast Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Gulf Coast Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Gulf Coast 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
Railway-Rail Brace. (open access)

Railway-Rail Brace.

Patent for a new railway-rail brace designed "particularly to be used on curves of rail-way tracks, and which ties the rails as to prevent spreading of said rails" (lines 13-16), including illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Barnes, Ned Eastman
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History