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Artificial Stone.
Patent for artificial stone made of a special combination of cement that hardens and stays hard under water. It also does not conduct heat.
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Power, John H. & Power, Rufus M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching and Tying Device.
Patent for a "device capable of enabling the wires of a fence after the latter has been erected or during the construction thereof to be readily tightening to the desired tension without necessitating the removal of staples or other devices for fastening the fence-wires to the posts." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1897
Creator:
Kirby, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "relates to machines for dropping or planting cotton, corn, or other seed, and has for its object to provide a device embodying simplicity, convenience, cheapness, and efficiency. To this end it consists in certain improvements in construction and operation of the same" (lines 12-18).
Date:
March 13, 1883
Creator:
Lowder, John Ellis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for Sash-Fastener. "My invention relates to sash-fasteners for holding and locking a window-sash either in an open or closed position." (lines7-9). With illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
Williams, Harry I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Remedy For Chicken-Cholera.
Patent for “medicines for the treatment of chicken-cholera” (lines 12-13) which includes ingredients, instructions and dosage. Ingredients include Cayenne pepper, May-apple root, and blue vitriol (sulphate of copper). The medicine may be used as a preventative or as a cure.
Date:
March 17, 1885
Creator:
Ross, George Washington & Ross, James Dewitt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag-Saw.
Patent for a simple and efficient drag-saw that can be easily transported and adjusted. The saw can also be lifted during operation if necessary. It has a frame, a longitudinally-grooved guiding-bracket attached to the frame, a reciprocating pitman-head that slides into the frame, a crank-shaft that operates the pitman-head, an arm that carries the saw with a pivotal connection to the pitman-head, a saw-frame secured to the pitman-head's outer end, an adjustable strap between the saw-carrying arm and the saw-frame for adjusting the saw-frame, a spring between the arm and the pitman-head, a saw-lifting lever fulcrumed on the machine-frame, a pendent stirrup carried by the lifting-lever and slotted to control the saw-carrying arm, and a guiding-bracket with a slot where the stirrup slides and another slot where the arm moves.
Date:
March 3, 1896
Creator:
Reeves, Newell Antony
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt of Levi Perryman, March 31, 1879]
Received of Levi Perryman the amount of $232.77 for execution issed from the District Court of Wise County in case No. 619. Collected from D. E. Bramon. Signed by District Clerk of Wise County.
Date:
March 31, 1879
Creator:
Glase, W. D.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Historian, Volume 38, Number 4, March 1978
Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date:
March 1978
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Gregg, March 24, 1971
Interview with Robert Gregg, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Decatur, Texas, who was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion"). Gregg discusses mobilization and deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and his capture, internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia and Changi Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand "Death" Railway, and liberation.
Date:
March 24, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Gregg, Robert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Churn.
Patent for a churn, which is run by a foot treadle attached to a wheel that turns the dasher in the churn.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Stagg, Frank E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Machine.
Patent for a new and useful wire-fence machine that can be conveniently carried around.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Watson, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Out.
Patent for a telephone wire cutout for use in manually grounding the telephone line during a storm.
Date:
March 29, 1910
Creator:
Smith, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Drowning]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two people drowning in Lake Bridgeport, near Jacksboro, after their boat capsized in a windstorm.
Date:
March 15, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Crash postmortem]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about investigations into a military plane crash that left 17 dead in Wise County.
Date:
March 28, 1958
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane collision]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mid-air collision of two military planes that left 17 dead.
Date:
March 27, 1958
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fatality]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man dying in a head-on collision in Rhome.
Date:
March 12, 1963
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Year in review 1958]
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering news highlights from the year 1958.
Date:
1958-03-27/1958-12-31
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Motorcycles]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
Date:
March 10, 1968
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Fort Worth water]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 8, 1980, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Fort Worth water]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 10, 1980, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Fort Worth water folo]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 11, 1980
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Fort Worth water folo]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 11, 1980
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Water folo]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 11, 1980
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Bridgeport]
B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 4, 1981
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library