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Locking Joints for Railway-Rail Joints.
Patent for a locking device for railway-rail joints. It improves how the meeting rail ends are fastened, and prevents accidental disconnection. It is "a locking fish-plate having keyhole bolt-slots, the narrow portion of the slots having inclined sides, the inclination diminishing gradually toward the end, and double-headed bolts, one of the heads being tapered, whereby the bolt is subjected to a double wedging action" (lines 56-61). A face-plate is perforated and receives the tapered heads and securing-rivets.
Date:
July 21, 1896
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Bottom.
Patent for a new and improved bed bottom. This design "consists in a spring-bed formed of two U-shaped spring-rods or frames formed by the rods, which frames have their end pieces crossed and secured at their free ends in the opposite ends of slates. To the longitudinal pieces of the spring-frames the side edges of a piece of canvas are secured, and spiral springs are secured on the slats below the canvas" (lines 11-19).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Bentley, Travis C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Farmer's boat]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
July 21, 1982, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. M. N. Dannenbaum, November 21, 1944]
Letter from I. H. Kempner to M. N. Dannenbaum discussing his inexperience in state funding but suggesting that Dallas and Houston each raise more money to have a sufficient amount for the new building. He also discusses Rabbi Friedman's upcoming trip to Birmingham to meet with the Director of the University of Alabama Hillel.
Date:
November 21, 1944
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Escapements for Time-Pieces
Patent for inprovements in escapements for time-pieces involving levers and duplex escapements as a way of improving force and regularity in time-pieces. Patent gives instructions and provides illustrations.
Date:
October 21, 1879
Creator:
Laughlin, Abner G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Steam Boiler Parts on a Train]
Photograph of a train in Paris, Texas holding steam boiler sections meant for power generators. Written below the image are "[sic] R. I #1331 Paris, Texas to Warrick, Ind. WB #3167 Aug 21st 1957 Shipper - Babcock & Wilcox Co. Cosignee - Aluminum Co. of America Steam Boiler Sections MFG. at Paris Texas (for Power Generator Stations) - T&P SSW St Louis A&S Sou" and "H. H. Maples."
Date:
August 21, 1957
Creator:
Maples, H. H.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Steam Boiler Parts on a Train 2]
Photograph of a train in Paris, Texas holding steam boiler sections meant for power generators. Written below the image are "[sic] P. R. R. #613746 Paris, Texas to Warrick, Ind. WB #3167 Aug 21st 1957 Shipper - Babcock & Wilcox Co Consignee - Aluminum Co. of America Steam Boiler Sections mfg at Paris, Texas (for Power Generator Stations) - T&P SSW St Louis A&S Sou" and "H. H. Maples."
Date:
August 21, 1957
Creator:
Maples, H. H.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for cars. This design "relates to that class of couplers that are self-couplers; and it consists of an open-top hook-shaped draw-bar provided with a pivoted T-shaped vertically-moving coupling-bar, and provided also with an end socket for using the ordinary coupling link" (lines 7-12).
Date:
June 21, 1881
Creator:
McCray, John Henry Branic
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Water-Heater and Smoke-Consumer
Patent for a water heater which connects to the furnace and uses the smoke and gases passing through it to heat the water in the water heater.
Date:
January 21, 1908
Creator:
Miles,Joseph Furnas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Fuel Burner
Patent for a liquid fuel burner. Illustration included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Richey, William F. & Daly, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turping Implement.
Patent for a new and improved turfing implement. This design "is to produce a . . . handle . . . together with improved means for threading the needle (lines 10-12). It consists "with a tubular needle having a longitudinal slit, the outer end of the needle being open and its upper side being formed into a tongue near its inner end, which is bent upwardly and whose extremity projects into the needle, of a handle into which the needle is passed and a presser-foot adjustably connected at its inner end to the handle and having its outer end turned up and provided with an opening" (lines 85-93).
Date:
June 21, 1892
Creator:
Robinson, Laurence Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Property, Photograph 1981-05]
Photograph of a historic property in Texas.
Date:
January 21, 1986
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Hit and run]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
December 21, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Weather]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about turbulent spring time weather which continues across north central Texas.
Date:
April 21, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 21, 1981
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 21, 1981
Creator:
Wright, Pat & Nichols, Nanalee
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1982
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 21, 1982
Creator:
Wright, Pat & Nichols, Nanalee
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 21, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 21, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 21, 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 21, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 21, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 21, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 21, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 21, 1915
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History