Combination Fish-Bucket. (open access)

Combination Fish-Bucket.

Patent for a combination fish bucket, which has two compartments for holding bait, tackle, and food and a holder for a fishing rod, which may be carried on the body or by a handle.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Fly, Nathaniel D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-314 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-314

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legality of the use or possession of nets in or on the water of Nueces Bay in Nueces County for taking fish and shrimp.
Date: July 26, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Soft Candy. (open access)

Feeder for Soft Candy.

Patent for bee feeder device that allows bees to have access to food during transport. The feeder also is designed to prevent any running and clogging, while minimizing bee death due to starvation.
Date: July 12, 1921
Creator: Ault, Eugene B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Port Aransas Corpus Christi Waterway, Texas (45-Foot Project) (open access)

Port Aransas Corpus Christi Waterway, Texas (45-Foot Project)

Report of the U.S. Army Engineers describing the geography of Texas including the likelihood of floods and benefits of flood control, as well as waterways.
Date: July 26, 1968
Creator: United States. Department of the Army. Office, Chief of Engineers.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Sash (open access)

Window Sash

Patent for a window sash. Illustration included.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Daugherty, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Headlight (open access)

Locomotive-Headlight

Patent for a locomotive headlight in which its illuminating lights are placed directly ahead by a means of better support.
Date: July 1, 1919
Creator: Moody, Calvin D.
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
Soot-Preventing Composition. (open access)

Soot-Preventing Composition.

Patent for "an improved soot-preventing composition, which is used by being sprinkled over the coal and which furnished a more complete combustion of the carbon-particles carried along by the products of combustion, so that the deposit of soot into smoke-pipes, flues and chimneys is prevented from forming cinders and large clinkers." (Lines 9-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1894
Creator: Givens, Royall
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Oil-Can. (open access)

Safety Oil-Can.

Patent for "an improvement in safety oil cans...to provide in an oil can, [a] mechanism for securely closing the spout, to prevent waste and evaporation..." (lines 9-13).
Date: July 26, 1921
Creator: Richey, James David
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes for Preserving Wood. (open access)

Improvement in Processes for Preserving Wood.

Patent for preserving wood from the ravages of marine insects (lines 7-8).
Date: July 28, 1874
Creator: Archer, Roger W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History