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Printing type

Several hundred pieces of 19th century lead printing type, including spacers, from Brenham Banner Press office

Date: 1800~/1899~

Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Letters Patent for Flutter Wheels]

Letters patent granting rights to James Stewart for an improvement to flutter wheels used to drive gins, mills, and other machinery.

Date: October 24, 1828

Creator: United States. Patent Office.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Transcript of Letter from José M. J. Carvajal to Stephen F. Austin, June 4, 1832]

Copy of transcript for a letter from José M. J. Carvajal to Stephen F. Austin, on June 4, 1832, asking for copies of all of the procedures of the National Mexican Congress since it was founded, and some scientific works.

Date: June 4, 1832

Creator: Carvajal, José M. J.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Two Letters from James Stewart]

Letter from James Stewart and Ziza Moore regarding legalities involved with a patent. The reverse contains a "Coppy [sic] of a letter to [George] Armstrong" discussing patent law.

Date: September 4, 1832

Creator: Stewart, James A. & Moore, Ziza

Item Type: Letter

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improvement in Propelling Vessels.

Patent for a hydraulic propeller that uses a current of water and steam power, including illustrations.

Date: August 26, 1846

Creator: Fulton, George W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Curing Meat, &c.

Patent for curing meat using an air-tight brine vacuum to heat and purify the meat, including illustrations.

Date: September 12, 1846

Creator: Allen, Augustus C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brick-Machine.

Patent for a machine, which the inventor calls "The Concussion Brick-Machine", that makes bricks using molds, including illustrations.

Date: May 30, 1848

Creator: Wilson, Robert

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boring and Mortising Machine.

Patent for a machine to bore square holes in substitute for a chisel and reduce labor, including illustration. The inventor calls it a "Mortise and Tenon Machine."

Date: July 11, 1848

Creator: Swingle, Alfred

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Preparation of Portable Soup-Bread.

Patent for "extracting the nutritious part of flesh or animal meat of every description and combining this concentrated extract with flour or vegetable meal, and baking the two substances in an oven, thereby forming a portable desiccated soup-bread....." (lines 8-14), instruction only, no illustration.

Date: February 5, 1850

Creator: Borden, Gail, Jr.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.

Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.

Date: July 30, 1850

Creator: Milner, George B.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dressing Millstones.

Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding every kind of grain into meal flour &c., &c." (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: March 4, 1851

Creator: Gaines, Edmund P.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Propeller of Machinery to be used in Currents.

Patent for a propelled water wheel that is attached to the back of a vessel that uses a current of water and stream power, including illustrations.

Date: November 18, 1851

Creator: Hardie, James

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Fence.

Patent for wire fencing using wooden and iron posts to be more readily seen by cattle, including illustration.

Date: November 8, 1853

Creator: Meriwether, William H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Clipping: 1854--Extraordinary Season.]

Newspaper clipping containing a chart of the range of temperatures in the shade from June 24, 1854 to September 14, 1854. It notes that Flowers, a person located on Union Street, kept record of these temperatures for the newspaper. There are miscellaneous advertisements on the reverse side.

Date: 1854

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: 1854 Temperatures]

Date: 1854

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improvement in Fish-Hooks.

Patent for "new and useful improvement in the Sockdolager Fish-Hook" (lines 4-5), including illustration.

Date: April 11, 1854

Creator: Sigler, Henry

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Millstone-Dress.

Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: July 25, 1854

Creator: Gaines, Edmund P.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring Bed-Bottom.

Patent for the improvement of bedsteads using a spring bottom-construction with zig-zag wire, including illustration.

Date: August 8, 1854

Creator: Meriwether, William Hunter

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for the improvement of the Rotary-Disk Cutters for plows that enable it to swivel and be supported by guides, including illustration.

Date: April 3, 1855

Creator: Hall, Thomas J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for the improvement of the rotary cultivator with adjustable thinning-points and rotating cutter, including illustration.

Date: April 10, 1855

Creator: Morrel, A. H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Patent for the improvement of the gang plow by the plows arrangement and pivoted beams to be adjustable for convenience, including illustration.

Date: May 1, 1855

Creator: Hall, Thomas J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for covering cotton seeds by using a hoe transversely with cams and slides with the main axle of the planter, including illustration.

Date: May 15, 1855

Creator: Morrel, A. H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mode of Straining Saws by Atmospheric Pressure.

Patent for the improvement of the reciprocating saw by simplifying the arrangement of cylinders, pipes, and exhaust pumps to produce the necessary vacuum, including illustration.

Date: August 14, 1855

Creator: Brown, A. & Coffin, Abel, Jr.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improved Cultivating-Plow.

Patent for a cultivating plow with a series of cutting-disks and digging-hoes, including illustration.

Date: March 25, 1856

Creator: Crenshaw, Micajah

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department