Soil Map, Reconnoissance Survey, South Central Texas Sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, counties, towns, ranches, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: June 12, 1915
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reconnoissance soil survey of south-central Texas (open access)

Reconnoissance soil survey of south-central Texas

Soil survey of 19 counties in south-central Texas. "The area includes all of Crockett, Schleicher, Menard, Mason, Llano, Burnet, Blanco, Gillespie, Kimble, Sutton, Valverde, Edwards, Kerr, Real, Bandera, Kendall, and Comal Counties and the greater parts of Hays and Travis Counties . . . ." Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, soils, irrigation, and alkali of these counties.
Date: June 12, 1915
Creator: Kocher, A. E. (Arthur E.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Scale

Patent for improvements in automatic weightlifting scales. The modifications aim to facilitate the weighting of materials in bulk.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin. (open access)

Gin.

Patent for improved cotton gins through the "construction and arrangement of the roll box and the ginning devices" (lines 11-12).
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner (open access)

Burner

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner. Illustrations included.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Burton, Arthur
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Extermination (open access)

Boll-Weevil Extermination

Patent for a device to exterminate boll-weevils on cotton. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Hebert, Paul E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Explosive Oil-Container. (open access)

Non-Explosive Oil-Container.

Patent for a protective screen of refractory filaments for "containers holding inflammable, explosive fluids such as naphtha, benzin, gasolene, etc." (lines 10-12)
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Ziller, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Wax from Plants (open access)

Apparatus for Separating Wax from Plants

Patent for an apparatus for separating the wax from plants. Illustrations included.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Hill, Conrad
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn with a better support device than previous churns.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Hyland, George Tolifaro
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer (open access)

Car-Replacer

Patent for a car replacer for train cars. Illustrations included.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Roark, Trever Cardail
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cash-Fare-Slip Holder (open access)

Cash-Fare-Slip Holder

Patent for a cash fare slip holder. Illustrations included.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Thomsen, Herman E. & Rienhardt, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brush-Cylinder for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Brush-Cylinder for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for brush cylinders for cotton gins which when clamped have no need to be further secured or fastened.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatically-Operated Forge (open access)

Automatically-Operated Forge

Patent for an automatically operated forge which dose not require an operator to keep the blower going and heats quickly.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Dickey, Joseph H. & Roach, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling (open access)

Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling

Patent for a train pipe coupling which connects automatically and does not come loose when the train is going around curves.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Blair, Oliver C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Delivering and Hauling Seines (open access)

Apparatus for Delivering and Hauling Seines

Patent for an apparatus for delivering and hauling seines that can be used in deeper water and is safer than the ordinary method of using seines.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Duffy, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap. (open access)

Ant Trap.

Patent for an in-ground ant trap that prevents the ants from escaping once caught in the trap, including instructions and illustrations
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Knox, Jessie Lonzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves, which can be put in through the door of the stove.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Stanton, Ernest F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corner Brace and Hinge for Screens (open access)

Combined Corner Brace and Hinge for Screens

Patent for combined corner brace and hinge for screens. Illustration included.
Date: June 12, 1911
Creator: Kirk, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Gate-Operating Mechanism

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Gate-Operating Mechanisms" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Wilson, Simeon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conductor's Train-Book (open access)

Conductor's Train-Book

Patent for a conductor's train-book. This invention if for a conductor to log train movements. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Crane, James C. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Construction (open access)

Building Construction

Patent for a reinforced building construction material.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box. (open access)

Match-Box.

Patent for an improved match box that holds at such an angle to a supporting wall that the matches will slide down to the delivery end of the match safe. The invention also includes a receptacle for burned matches.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Deaton, George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brick Fire Box Construction. (open access)

Brick Fire Box Construction.

Patent for an improved fire box liner construction for oil fueled locomotives that is made from bricks in an interlocking design that does not require cement and will not shake apart from vibration. Includes illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Blackmond, William C. & Stoy, Guy Everett
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Oliver, Jesse L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History