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Texas Commissioner of Insurance and Banking Annual Report: 1912 (open access)

Texas Commissioner of Insurance and Banking Annual Report: 1912

Annual report submitted by the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking documenting financial records including disbursements and transactions related to insurance made by the department during fiscal year 1912.
Date: 1912
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance and Banking.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1912 (open access)

North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1912

Annual report of the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, providing data about operations, updates about programs, and other information related to activities at the hospital.
Date: 1912
Creator: North Texas Hospital for the Insane
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1911 (open access)

North Texas Hospital for the Insane Annual Report: 1911

Annual report of the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, providing data about operations, updates about programs, and other information related to activities at the hospital.
Date: 1912
Creator: North Texas Hospital for the Insane
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Lunatic Asylum Annual Report: 1912 (open access)

Texas State Lunatic Asylum Annual Report: 1912

Annual report of the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, providing data about operations, updates about programs, and other information related to activities at the institution for the fiscal year 1912.
Date: 1912
Creator: Texas State Lunatic Asylum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Orphan Home Biennial Report: 1912 (open access)

Texas State Orphan Home Biennial Report: 1912

Biennial report of the State Orphan Home, including information about general maintenance, inmates, new departments, health and sanitation, state home school, industrial training, and financial estimates.
Date: 1912
Creator: Texas State Orphan Home
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Second Biennial Report 1911-1912 (open access)

Second Biennial Report 1911-1912

Report detailing the budget and activities of the Texas Library and Historical Commission for 1911-1912.
Date: 1912
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Reconnaissance Report on the Geology of the Oil and Gas Fields of Wichita and Clay Counties, Texas (open access)

A Reconnaissance Report on the Geology of the Oil and Gas Fields of Wichita and Clay Counties, Texas

Report published in a scientific bulletin, describing the geology of the oil and gas fields that reside within Wichita and Clay counties in Texas. Index starts on page 292.
Date: September 8, 1912
Creator: Udden, Johan August, 1859-1932
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Park City District, Utah (open access)

Geology and Ore Deposits of the Park City District, Utah

From introduction: This survey was the first systematic work undertaken in this geologic province since the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, in 1869, and was the first detailed geologic examination of a wide area in the Wasatch Range. Hence, an unusual amount of general geologic work in the region surrounding the special field was required to establish fundamental geologic facts.
Date: 1912
Creator: Boutwell, John Mason
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Geology of Long Island, New York (open access)

The Geology of Long Island, New York

Report describing the geology of Long Island based on surveys and research conducted 1903-1905, with a particular emphasis on glacial deposits and formations from the Pleistocene epoch. It includes a broad discussion, with tabular summaries.
Date: 1912
Creator: Fuller, Myron L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbureter (open access)

Carbureter

Patent for Carbureter and it uses.
Date: April 1, 1912
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process For Treating Crude Oil (open access)

Process For Treating Crude Oil

Patent for a process to treat crude oil.
Date: March 8, 1912
Creator: Barnickel, William S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Purifying Flour During The Manufacture Thereof (open access)

Process of Purifying Flour During The Manufacture Thereof

Patent for a mechanism related to the purifying of flour during manufacturing.
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Smith, George Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paint (open access)

Paint

Patent for application to introduce an invention of useful paint. The purpose of the paint was to treat woods and prevent them from their enemies, such as worms. This paint can preserve the woods from fire which can render the name fireproof. The further development on this can safe woods from being cracked, peeled or run.
Date: July 6, 1912
Creator: Mott, Theodore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Explosive Engine (open access)

Explosive Engine

Patent for a type of internal combustion engine using gunpowder as its fuel.
Date: August 16, 1912
Creator: Conner, Louis C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Hat Pin (open access)

Safety Hat Pin

Patent for a safety hat pin for protection against workplace injuries, including illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1912
Creator: Donaldson, James Macon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garden Implement (open access)

Garden Implement

This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.
Date: November 9, 1912
Creator: Ward, John Swayze
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Monkey Wrench (open access)

Monkey Wrench

Patent for a type of monkey wrench in which the movable jaw of the wrench is mounted upon the fixed jaw so that it is easily shifted upon the disengagement of a detent for the fixed jaw. This allows the wrench to be held in any desired adjusted position with relation to the fixed jaw.
Date: October 18, 1912
Creator: Joseph Mensik
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Letter of proposal from Warner E. Smith to the United Patent Office to put forth his invention on cultivator to improve the existing one. His invention on cultivator is for cleaning beds where the plants planted down deep in the ground. It is ideal for reeding the surface of the ground from weeds. With his proposal, Smith provided the diagram or drawing to give detail on how it is done.
Date: October 19, 1912
Creator: Smith, Warner E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guano Distributor (open access)

Guano Distributor

Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.
Date: July 19, 1912
Creator: H. D. Pate
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Trace Clip (open access)

Adjustable Trace Clip

Patent for Adjustable Trace Clip. "The invention relates to an adjustable trace clip, and has for its primary object to provide a clip of this character in which the connecting strap between the back and belly bands may be adjusted with relation to the trace so as to permit the back band to properly fit the animal and also allow the longitudinal adjustment of the trace" (lines 9-16).
Date: May 24, 1912
Creator: Bradfute, Benjamine F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device (open access)

Advertising Device

Patent for an Advertising Device. This device provides "a series of hinged leaves so mounted that those exposed to view have the experience of being part of a book." (lines 14-17). "A further object is to provide means which will conceal the operating mechanism, and mystify the observer" (lines 23-25), with a "supporting structure and a dummy provided with a movable hand...for turning said movable shaft as the leaves are turned" (lines 3-13).
Date: April 6, 1912
Creator: Friedman, Bernard Z.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter. (open access)

Carbureter.

Patent for a carbureter that vaporizes liquid fuel, specifically kerosene, for use as an explosive charge in an internal combustion engine.
Date: July 10, 1912
Creator: Mack, John Rodney.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Delinter (open access)

Delinter

Patent is for a Delinter. It provides a means for mechanical separation of cotton seeds from fiber as a new way of cotton ginning.
Date: April 24, 1912
Creator: Mullen, Joseph D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Splicer. (open access)

Wire-Splicer.

Patent for a wire splicer, or a device that connects distinct wires by looping them together. Illustrations included.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: Martin, Enoch
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History