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Churn.

Description: Patent for an automatic butter churn with illustrations.
Date: January 28, 1902
Creator: Fitzhugh, James, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.

Description: Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date: January 28, 1896
Creator: Innes, Robert Hayward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cane-Mill

Description: Patent for improvements in the mechanical make up and physical functionality of cane mills.
Date: January 28, 1890
Creator: Dunlap, William O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle and the wheels, provided with the sleeves, one of which is provided with the spur-wheel of the reach bar secured to the axle, the sleeve mounted on the said bar and provided with the pinion, the arms secured to the sleeve, the curved rods adjustably secured to the arm, and the blades secured to outer ends of the said rods" (lines 8-17).
Date: January 28, 1890
Creator: Jordan, Perry L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Artificial-Stone Composition

Description: Patent for "an artificial stone adapted for all purposes to which natural stone can be applied, and which can be given any desired shape while in a plastic state, or carved and polished after hardening" (lines 12-18).
Date: January 28, 1890
Creator: Blackmon, Albert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[TI 99/4A Microcomputer Tutorial]

Description: A video of a tutorial on how to operate a Texas Instrument 99/4A computer and how students can utilize the equipment in the microcomputer lab for computer science courses.
Date: January 28, 1986
Duration: 32 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Center for Media Production.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Ft Worth object]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a mysterious object that fell from the sky and set fire to a lawn in Benbrook being investigated by Texas Christian University, who suspected it to be made of aluminum foil.
Date: January 28, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in wire-stretchers. The "invention has relation to improvements in wire-stretchers, and especially to that class of wire-stretchers employed in wire-fence building or repairing" line 10).
Date: January 28, 1902
Creator: Dunlap, Sam H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Water-Tanks.

Description: Patent for an improved water-tank built with lumbers that are thoroughly dried and covered with asphaltum as waterproof agent. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 28, 1879
Creator: Bardon, Prosper
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Loose Leaf Binder

Description: Patent for a loose leaf binder. The invention consists of two adjustable sections in order to lengthen or shorten the post. Illustration included.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Bickley, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Magnetic Separator

Description: Patent for a magnetic separator for use in cotton and grain milling that removes all magnetic particles from the product.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Preslar, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing Appliance.

Description: Patent for a washing appliance that consists of pipes that release hot water within a container. This appliance can be used to wash clothing. The patent explains how the appliance works and the specifics of each pipe.
Date: January 28, 1919
Creator: McFarland, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Motor

Description: Patent for water motors that aides in "the transmission of the power generated by the revolution of two or more water-wheels to a single driving-shaft" (lines 8-10).
Date: January 28, 1890
Creator: Vernon, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and useful ironing-machine. "Invention is to improve the construction of ironing-machines and to provide a simple, efficient, and comparatively inexpensive one, designed for use both in laundries and elsewhere and capable of advantageously operating on all kinds of garment" (line 10-15).
Date: January 28, 1902
Creator: Dunn, William H. & McCurdy, Delo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lock

Description: Patent for a sliding bolt lock for doors that requires a key to open from the outside.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Van Hoesen, Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Switch-Hook

Description: Patent for a switch lock which prevents "splitting" (line 13). Illustrations included.
Date: January 28, 1908
Creator: Tullock, John Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Folding Poultry-Coop

Description: Patent for "an improvement in portable folding poultry-coops, and more particularly to a'coop or crate used in the transportation of fowls to market by rail or boat" (lines 8-11)
Date: January 28, 1890
Creator: Yoakum, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Measuring Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an improved measuring apparatus. This apparatus improves the measuring of dry goods through a measuring tape that is affixed to the measured goods. The invention allows for goods to be cut to exact lengths.
Date: January 28, 1919
Creator: Garrett, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gearing for Windmills

Description: Patent for gearing used in the operation of windmills. This invention improves the rotary motion of the wheel shaft that operates the pump. "A further object of the invention is to provide a wheel supporting frame in which is mounted for vertical movement the pump actuating rod" (13-16). Illustration included.
Date: January 28, 1908
Creator: Brown, Herbert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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