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Bale-Band Buckle

Description: Patent for buckles used to hold bands of bales. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Patterson, James S. & Smith, Dallas E.
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Animal-Poke

Description: Patent for an animal poke which is worn around the belly of the cow or other animal, and pokes the animal when it pushes against a fence and has a hook attached to the back of the poke which will catch onto the fence if they try to go underneath or over the fence.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Bush, Caswell C.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which can shop two rows at the same time and performs the work faster than it can be done manually.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Martin, Joseph W.
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Baling-press

Description: Patent for a baling-press that will prevent hay or other material from jamming the mechanisms used to bale it.
Date: December 8, 1900
Creator: Dennis, Felix Henry
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Apparatus for Killing Rodents

Description: Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Palmer, Austin D.
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Adding-Machine

Description: Patent for "a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may accomplish with facility and case all the purposes for which it is intended" (lines 13-16).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Wright, Joseph W.
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Adding-Machine.

Description: Patent for am adding machine by using two disks, one a units-disk with pins in multiples of ten, one a tens-disk, is an annular disk with pin surrounding the units disk, an outwardly spring-pressed holder having a beveled outer end frictionally engaging the pins of the tens-disk and a carrier having oppositely-beveled ends engaged a supplemental pin and one pin on the tens-disks, teeth in the adjacent faces of the holder and carrier, and an idle-gear between them to enable the adding operation.… more
Date: May 12, 1891
Creator: Wright, Joseph W.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustrati… more
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: McCaul, James L.
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[Photograph of Students in Science Lab]

Description: Photograph of five young men gathered around a microscope in one of the science labs at Hardin-Simmons University. One of the men sits on a chair directly in front of the microscope and rests his hand on the eyepiece while the others stand behind him.
Date: unknown
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Banner Dairies

Description: Photograph of several workers in a factory at a dairy where they appear to be bottling milk. They are working around two conveyor belts which have equipment and packing supplies. To the left, there are several large stacks of bottles in crates. According to accompanying information, this building is at S. Fourteenth and Butternut streets in Abilene, Texas.
Date: 1958
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Banner Dairies

Description: Photograph of a storage or processing area at a dairy. Large metallic tanks fill the room connected to multiple pipes, gauges, and other machinery. According to accompanying information, factory is located on S. Fourteenth and Butternut Streets in Abilene, TX.
Date: 1958
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Corn or Grain Knife.

Description: Patent for an improved corn or grain knife that is simpler in construction and inexpensive to produce. This corn or grain knife is "adapted for use in the hand of the user for clipping the tops of standing grain such as corn, by the simple act of opening and closing the hand" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Holliday, Thomas B.
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