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The first railroad built in Texas is called the Harrisburg Railroad and opened for business in 1853. [21] In 1854, the Texas and Red River telegraph services were the first telegraph offices to open in Texas. [21] The Texas cotton industry in 1859 increased production by seven times compared to 1849, as 58,073 bales increased to 431,645 bales. [22]
Other gamblers could make a dirty deal with the customers: give the customer a "map" of where the big prizes are on the punchboard. This came to prevention by the use of serial numbers : the customer would present the slip to the operator, and if the serial numbers matched, the customer was declared a winner.
This map is the earliest recorded document of Texas history. [ 18 ] Between 1528 and 1535, four survivors of the Narváez expedition , including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Estevanico , spent six and a half years in Texas as slaves and traders among various native groups.
The starting gate was invented by Clay Puett of Chillicothe, Texas, when it was used at Lansdowne Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for the first time on July 1, 1939. [291] U.S. patent #2,232,675 was filed by Puett on August 7, 1939, and issued to him on February 18, 1941. [292] 1939 Twist tie
Remember when Texas Rangers’ Rougned Odor punched José Bautista in 2016? An Arlington taco shop immortalizes the infamous blow with mural by Fort Worth artist Juan Velazquez.
A punching machine is a machine tool for punching and embossing flat sheet-materials to produce form-features needed as mechanical element and/or to extend static stability of a sheet section.
The heart of the 024 and 026 keypunches was a set of twelve precision punches, one per card row, each with an actuator of relatively high power. Punch cards were stepped across the punch one column at a time, and the appropriate punches were activated to create the holes, resulting in a distinctive "chunk, chunk" sound as columns were punched.
Social media videos and blog posts periodically describe a story of a heinous concentration camp made up of newly freed African Americans along the Mississippi Delta in the 1860s. Historians ...