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- Attachment for Plows.
- Patent for an attachment for plows, which "may be utilized as a cutter or the plow converted into a double-shovel plow," (lines 18-19) with instructions and illustrations.
- Automobile Signal
- Patent for an automobile signal which can be attatched to an automobile to signal the automobiles driving intent, stopping, turning etc.
- Beet-Harvester
- Patent for a beet-harvester that improves the efficiency and lowers the cost of beet-gripping devices, including illustrations.
- Continual Development of a Coastal Geodatabase for Texas: Final Report
- "This report provides a summary of the products created through this effort; and, the activities undertaken to promote the use of WOFpy. WOFpy and other Water Data for Texas Python modules are being released as open-source software under the BSD license so that Python-users and the broader scientific community may benefit from their continual development and use" (p. 3).
- Convertible Bed
- Patent for a bed that can be converted from a sideboard or a table. Illustrations included.
- Corn-Husker.
- Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and convenient hand-operated machine employing an oscillating knife or cutter for severing the stalk or stem and at at the same time clamping the shucks, so that the ear, when turned, will effect the bursting open of the shucks, thus permitting the ready removal of the ear" (lines 8-15).
- Cultivator Attachment
- Patent for an attachment for a cotton cultivator that comprises of, among other objects, cotton chopper blades. Illustrations included.
- Curtain Holder.
- Patent for a new and improved curtain-holder. This design "has relation to that class of curtain-holders which are adapted to hold or clasp the lower part of a window-curtain, so as to hold it up against the window frame or casing when it is desired to spread the curtains apart, and has for its object to so construct a device of that class that the holding hook or catch which clasps the folds of the curtain may be turned down so as to be out of the way when the device is not in use" (lines 22-31).
- Egg Preserving Compound
- Patent for a egg preserving compound. This invention consists of an air-excluding coating to prevent deterioration for an indefinite period.
- Eyeglass-Mounting
- Patent for a mounting for eyeglasses to be fitted on the bridge of the nose. Illustrations included.
- Farm Gate
- Patent for a farm gate. Illustrations included.
- Feeding Trough
- Patent for a feeding trough. This invention is designed to prevent the waste of feed by collecting the feed pushed out during feeding. Illustration included.
- Focus Report, Volume 76, Number 2, December 1998
- Periodical discussing the controversy over school vouchers, presenting the arguments in favor and opposed to school vouchers, and profiling some existing voucher programs.
- Focus Report, Volume 86, Number 6, December 22, 2020
- Report focusing on regulations regarding the construction boom in Texas, including aggregate operations, air permits, regulation recommendations, and various proposals.
- The Fuels Used in Texas
- Report published in a scientific bulletin, describing the types of fuels used in Texas in 1913 as well as their value and consumption rates. Includes chapters on firewood, coal, manufactured gas, natural gas, different aspects of lignite, fuel oil, and comparing the different fuel types.
- Furrow-Opener
- Patent for a spring-operated furrow opener which creates openings in the soil for the reception of a seed. Illustrations included.
- Hame and Trace Connector
- Patent for a Hame and trace connector. Illustration included.
- Harrow Attachment for Cultivators
- Patent for a harrow attachment for cultivators. "This inventions relates to a harrow attachment for plow or disk cultivators" (line 12-13). Illustration included.
- Hay-Press.
- Patent for a hay-press that has an easily detachable tie-box and power-head, and the plunger-beam has an improved construction. Loose hay "fed into the feed-box [is] gathered or collected by the plunger through the instrumentality of teeth on a peculiarly-formed power-head engaging teeth on the plunger-beam and then compressed by a finger or arm on the power-head baring against the end of the plunger-beam" (lines 22-28). The press does not need to pinned to the ground.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for car-couplings.
- Improvement in Force - Pumps.
- Patent for new and improved force pump with three cylinders.
- Improvement in Manufacturing Anti-Corrosive Compounds.
- Patent for "an anti-corrosive coating for iron and all other metals, and one which in all respects does positively preserve the same, and into the composition of which enters as an element neither lead, oil, nor any other ingredient that contains any destructive or otherwise deleterious acid or alkali." (Lines 7-13) Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in Skeleton Tillage-Plow.
- Improvement in Putting Up Caustic Alkalies.
- Patent for a method of packaging caustic alkalies inside of treated paper or wood. This patent describes the mixture and use of this treatment.
- Improvement in Vibrating Propellers.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in vibrating propellers.
- Lever-Jack
- Patent for a lever jack. Illustrations included.
- [Log Turner]
- Patent for a log turner. This "invention relates to an improvement in nigger-bars used in connection with steam-cylinders to turn the logs on sawmill-carriages" (line 8-11). Illustration included.
- Means for Operating Fans &c.
- Patent for a way to mechanically fan oneself. The machine is "held in the hand and driven by pressure of the thumb applied intermittently to a vibrating lever" (lines 15-17).
- Nut-Lock
- Patent for a nut lock to keep nuts and bolts fastened. Illustrations included.
- Piano Attachment.
- Patent for "an attachment for upright pianos designed to produce a harp, mandolin, of cithern tone, and the object in view is to provide an attachment having an improved construction of strikers." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Plow
- Patent for a plow which may also be used to adjust a cultivator shovel. Illustrations included.
- Post Hole Digger
- Patent for post hole digger with a simple construction which can be manufactured at a comparatively smaller cost.
- Provision-Safe.
- Patent for "a pantry and kitchen safe combined and designed to be built apart from the house and constituting a distinct and removable piece of furniture," (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
- Pump
- Patent for a well pump. Illustrations included.
- Sewing-Machine Attachment.
- Patent for a sewing machine attachment "which can be used for the purpose of sharpening any instrument of small size - such as needles, scissors, knives, &c.;" (lines 11-13) with instructions and illustrations.
- Shaft-Support
- Patent for a shaft support and anti-rattler for vehicle thills. Illustrations included.
- Show-Globe.
- Patent for "a globe adapted to serve simply for the purpose of illumination and furnishing a pure white bright light for general purposes, or to serve as an illuminated show-globe for druggists," (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
- Side Frame for Railroad Trucks
- Patent for side frame for railroad trucks to prevent the accidental detachment of the binder or tie bar.
- Stalk-Chopper
- Patent for a stalk chopper particularly designed for slicing cotton and corn stalks. Illustrations included.
- Telephone Attachment.
- Patent for "a device which will support the weight of the telephone-receiver on the switch-lever whether the receiver be hung on the hooks of said lever or carelessly dropped, [the] object being to provide against the short-circuiting of the local battery when the telephone is not being used, whereby it would become uselessly exhausted, and also to insure that the signal-bell shall at such times always be in operative circuit with the central station, so that the annoyance to a distant exchange or subscriber by a failure of the call-bell to respond is avoided." (Lines 9-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-367
- 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether, under the stated facts, a parolee "eloper" from another state, can be turned over to the proper authorities of the demanding state without going through the formalities of extradition.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-192
- 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Refund of franchise tax collections to banking corporations, and related questions (RQ-2127)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-464
- 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Constitutionality of Senate Bill 1417, Acts 1997, 75th Leg., R.S., ch. 1327, and related questions (RQ-987)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-497
- 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of rider to appropriations act requiring certain state agencies to expend appropriated funds for training provided by the Texas Commission on Human Rights (RQ-1029)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-498
- 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether business arrangements between corporations and practicing veterinarians constitute the practice of veterinary medicine, and related questions (RQ-1086)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0494
- 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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Education Code sections 44.031 and 44.033 apply to real and personal property lease-purchase contracts authorized under Local Government Code sections 271.004 and 271.005 (RQ-0500-GA)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0495
- 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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Texas Department of Insurance is prohibited from disclosing the identities of companies writing commercial property insurance along the Texas coast (RQ-0502-GA)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0496
- 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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Education Code section 11.168 and its effect on an independent school district’s authority to build or pay for infrastructure for new schools within the district (RQ-0503-GA)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0497
- 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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the 2006 Qualified Allocation Plan of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs complies with Government Code section 2306.671(b) (RQ-0515-GA)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0900
- 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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Government Code section 2157.0611, concerning the procedure for making certain catalog purchases, applies to an independent school district (RQ-0980-GA)