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Churn.

Patent for a churn that has a frame supporting the churn and swinging motion mixes the cream. This invention successfully separates oily globules from the cream, thus making churning more effective and easy.

Date: October 10, 1893

Creator: Bailey, James Westey & McNorton, John Tomas

Item Type: Patent

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a rail joint, which will be brought closer together when more weight is put on it.

Date: March 31, 1908

Creator: Bailey, John P. H.

Item Type: Patent

Evaluation of Water Resources in Part of Central Texas

Report studying the central Texas region's water resources, with notes that there has been rapid decline and contamination in the area. The aquifer is also being used faster than it can naturally replenish.

Date: January 1990

Creator: Baker, Bernard; Duffin, Gail; Flores, Robert & Lynch, Tad

Item Type: Report

High Purity Marble Falls Limestone, Burnet County, Texas

"The primary purpose of this paper is to report the presence and distribution of a high purity limestone in the Marble Falls limestone in the vicinity of Marble Falls" (p. 5).

Date: September 1952

Creator: Barnes, Virgil E. (Virgil Everett), 1903-1998

Item Type: Report

Ouachita Facies in Central Texas

Report on the Ouachita Facies, including map areas, geologic examinations, chemical compositions, subsurface, and findings.

Date: December 1948

Creator: Barnes, Virgil E. (Virgil Everett), 1903-1998

Item Type: Report

Steam Engine, &c.

Patent for a new and improved engine. This design "connect[s] the piston-rod of the steam-cylinder with the disk or crank that is attached to the fly-wheel shaft by means of a lever, or a disk acting as such, in a manner that enables the piston-rod to operate upon its connecting-bar in a longitudinal direction . . . thereby [avoiding] angular vibration of the connecting-rod and reduc[ing] friction of sliding surfaces" (lines 15-25).

Date: December 11, 1883

Creator: Barton, Alexander M. & Davis, Philip Z.

Item Type: Patent

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved, durable, and efficient car couple that can be operated from one side of the car for the safety of the operator. The draw-head is newly designed.

Date: April 18, 1893

Creator: Bishop, James C.

Item Type: Patent

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved car-coupling that automatically couples cars by "striking together adjacent couplers of the same class, and which may be conveniently uncoupled by a person standing at a distance from the coupler without going between the cars, as with the ordinary couplers" (lines 10-15).

Date: December 4, 1894

Creator: Bishop, James C.

Item Type: Patent

Railway-Tie.

Patent for improvements in tailway-tie by “the provision of a clamping plate terminating at one end in a pair of spaced brackets that extend over the base flange of the rail, the said clamping plate being held in engagement with the base flange of the rail by a pair of spaced lugs formed with the top plate of the tie and which bear against the rear end of the clamping plate. Further, this would give greater strength and stability to the proper by seating the rail flange directly upon the top p… more

Date: January 4, 1910

Creator: Brister, William T.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-choppers by way of vertical rock-shafts.

Date: May 25, 1876

Creator: Burnham, Theodore O.

Item Type: Patent

CAPCOG Connections, February/March 2010

Newsletter of the Capital Area Council of Governments containing articles and news about the civic institutions in the ten-county Capital Area. The articles included are "Capital Area Communities Receive Solid Waste Grants," "Help for Dementia Patients: CAPCOG 9-1-1 Centers Accept Calls from Locating Devices," "Holiday Projects Benefit Clients," "EPA Publishes More Stringent Standards for Ground-Level Ozone," "ENS Helps Capture Round Mountain Robbers," and "New Leadership Elected for CAPCOG."

Date: February 2010