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Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-705

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether control of the building and grounds purchased with Texas Employees Retirement System Trust funds is within the jurisdiction of the State Board of Control or the Retirement System.
Date: June 7, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-706

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Construction of Section 8 of Article V of House Bill 12, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, (General Appropriation Act) relating to payment for injuries for state employees injured while performing the duties of any hazardous posit… more
Date: June 7, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1454

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legality of accepting day students at Austin State School who have not been committed by a county court.
Date: May 7, 1952
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.

Rolling Windshield.

Description: Patent for an automobile attachment which protects the said automobile from adverse weather conditions. The apparatus is unique in its simple construction, practicality, and ability to "be rolled into a small compass" when not in use (lines 20-21).
Date: June 7, 1921
Creator: Gerhard, William H.

Electric Heater for Metal Workers.

Description: Patent for a electric heater for heating metal in preparation for welding. Consists of a bath of sal ammonia and water with a layer of graphite on top that the metal is placed into and then electric current is turned on which heats the metal to a weldable temperature.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Luthy, Joseph Otto

Process of Ginning Cotton.

Description: Patent for a process of ginning cotton that is "based upon the principle of a gradual or successive ginning of the seed, somewhat analogous to the gradual reduction process of grinding wheat or other grain" (lines 28-61). This process improves ginning by over thirty-three percent.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.

Chain-Steamer.

Description: Patent for a chain steamer that has an improved means of propulsion with a uniform speed despite a changing current. It does not allow the boat to laterally deflect. It is especially meant to be used with tow boats that travel on fast-moving, shallow streams. It can be used to move ferry boats across fast-moving rivers as well.
Date: February 7, 1893
Creator: Pfeifer, Edmund I. & Pfeifer, Eduard A.

Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design "relates to improvements in the class of washing-machines commonly known as 'cylinder washing-machines,' and has for its object the production of a machine which will operate thoroughly and expeditiously, and without injury to the fabric, while at the same time it is light and inexpensive in construction and simple in operation; and with these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts" (lines … more
Date: July 7, 1885
Creator: Ekman, Axel F.

T-Square.

Description: Patent for a new and improved t-square. This design calls for a triangular prism of a tongue, which enables more scales to be available to the work-person. The head, with its brackets and rabbet, will fasten the tongue in place while the work-person uses it.
Date: November 7, 1882
Creator: Rowe, Joseph William

Rat Trap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rat trap. This design consists of "the pendulum bait-frame, in combination with triggers and attached to cam-springs and weighted trap-doors and rollers" (lines 59-62).
Date: February 7, 1882
Creator: Younger, Henry
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