348 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next

Scene at Hynson's Springs, Six Miles West of Marshall, Texas

Description: Black and white halftone postcard of a scene with two young women at Hynson's Springs, near Marshall, Texas. One of the young women stands at the bottom of the spring house and is holding up what appears to be a long-handled dipper, while the other woman is seated on the top of the spring house and is reaching down toward the dipper. The spring house is a brick, stone, and possibly concrete structure with arches at the bottom where the water comes out. It is located in a depression in a wooded … more
Date: August 31, 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Machine for Filing Gin Saws.

Description: Patent for a new and improved machine to sharpen the teeth of cotton gin saws. This design utilizes two bevel-faced wheels connected to a block between two arms that clamp the saw blade. The bevel-faced wheels sharpen the teeth of the blade, and the nuts and bolts of the frame allow for movement as well as tightening and loosening.
Date: August 17, 1880
Creator: McAllister, Alexander F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Cutting Key-Seats in Shafting

Description: Patent for "cutting key-seats in shafting machine. It provides a portable key-seat-cutting especially adapted to operate upon the driving shafts of locomotives in key-seating eccentrics thereon." (lines 7-13)
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Matheus, Karl
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spirometer

Description: Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Rigging for Railway Cars

Description: Patent for draft rigging for use with railway cars. It is designed to "provide a simple and comparatively and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive draft mechanism of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the framework of a car and capable of effectively cushioning the car-coupling and of relieving the body of a car of shocks and strains" (line 12-18). Illustrations included.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Saling, Thomas W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rope Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rope attachment. This design "relates to a novel and useful device which is adapted to be rigidly and substantially secured to the end of a rope, and which is constructed with a curved lip on its protruding end, so that when pressed over the loop of a snap-hook it will form a link or jointed connection of the snap-hook with the rope, ferrule, or clamp" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Powell, John Seymour
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Gear for Railway Cars

Description: Patent for a draft gear for railway cars that allows a simple and efficient means of repairs or substitutions of sills or beams that may be done without dissociating the draft bar so that a car may not be out of commission for a considerable length of time.
Date: August 17, 1915
Creator: Moorman, James M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Headlight.

Description: Patent for a train engine headlight, which shines light around a curve.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Bell, Robert A. & McKiel, James B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car-couplings

Description: Patent for "an automatic car-coupling, that may also be readily coupled with the common pin-and-link and other couplings, and be adjusted without going between the cars, so as to avoid all danger" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 24, 1875
Creator: Harper, Peter
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6677

Description: 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 the County Commissioners' Court of Harrison County has the authority to increase the salary of the County Treasurer for the remainder of 1945.
Date: August 3, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen