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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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32
Texas Historical Commission
9
Texas General Land Office
4
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4
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4
Fort Worth Aviation Museum
2
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11,246
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10,587
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659
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659
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208
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81
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32
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29
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28
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8,571
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985
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659
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493
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484
The Times Review
54
2000 Census County Subdivision Block Map
50
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40
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40
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Screen for Vehicles
Patent for an improvement in screens meant to prevent passengers from having to look at horses' hind ends in carriages. It is a rectangle of cloth laced in a frame, which is attached to the thills.
Date:
May 19, 1896
Creator:
Fleming, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Straw Rack for Threshing Machines
Patent for a rack that will separate the grain, straw, and chaff to the fullest extent.
Date:
October 3, 1916
Creator:
McGraw, Walter A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Cattle-Gate
Patent for a gate or guard to be positioned on a railroad track to prevent cattle or persons crossing the railroad track from turning up or down the track, and so avoid injury or death to cattle or persons. It is designed to be automatically activated by the passing train, and is of a simple design that is inexpensive to construct.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Seay, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Frog
Patent for railway frog which "will tend to minimize the danger of train derailment at switch crossings" (lines 12-13).
Date:
July 30, 1918
Creator:
Jackson, George Ferris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent for "a simple and efficient construction of engine including two parallel series of piston-heads and wherein steam will be supplied to the heads of each series alternately" (lines 9-13).
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Keith, Jonathan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for a device which effectively burns "kerosene, gasoline, naphtha or crude oil" (lines15-16) in a bunsen-burner fashion that is also easy to manufacture and cheap to maintain.
Date:
July 20, 1915
Creator:
Veach, Joshua H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: HIV Follow-up]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 12, 1992, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Desk
Patent for a desk. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 10, 1908
Creator:
Thompson, Thomas Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Digging Wells or Post Holes.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design consists in "the combination, with an annular head carrying cutters, of the block or bar, the arms secured at their upper ends to the bar or block and at their opposite ends to the head, the cylinder, and the yielding arms secured at one end to said bar and their opposite ends adapted to engage the upper edge of the cylinder" (lines 34-41).
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
Stephenson, Elam Grigory
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple in construction, durable, and effect ive in operation, and which may be easily manipulated" (lines 11-14).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Porter, William Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for plows. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rear of the land-side of a turning plow, of an attachment for dirting the plants, consisting of a shank having a rearwardly and upwardly extending blade diagonally attached thereto, having a sharp curved lower edge and a curved upper edge, said edges forming a point on the outer end of the blade, said blade having a concaved upper face" (lines 7-15).
Date:
August 14, 1888
Creator:
Tennison, James B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for baling-press which is to "provide a rotary sweep,..., which is connected in a novel manner to the compressing-plunger, whereby said plunger is operated twice to each revolution of the sweep" (lines 12-16). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Fitz Water, Marshall V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History