Spike Holder (open access)

Spike Holder

Patent for an improvement in railroad spike holders to affordably reduce abrasion of the rail and to hold spikes into position, including illustrations.
Date: October 15, 1914
Creator: Kelly, William D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7409 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7409

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether, under the provisions of S.B. 167 and Article 2900, Marion County is eligible to receive $3.50 per pupil as transportation aid when the total enumerated scholastics, both white and colored, exceed the statutory limit.
Date: October 8, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4099 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4099

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;Employment and salary of school bus driver and route of operation of his bus.
Date: October 6, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Car. (open access)

Hand-Car.

Patent for improvements in hand-cars by “providing gearing operated by cranks, on the shaft of which are arranged triangular balance devices, the cranks being adjustable by means of set-screws of other analogous means, so that they may be made to operate the wheels in either direction desired.” (Lines 24-29) Illustration is included.
Date: October 6, 1891
Creator: Lo Casto, Tony
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.

Patent for improvements in cotton picking machines.
Date: October 18, 1870
Creator: Dreeson, Bartholdt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History