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Potter County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Potter County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:190,476] (5000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1909
Creator: McDonald, H. F. & Terrell, O. O.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Window Frame And Sash.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in window frames and sashes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1900
Creator: Wood, Alpheus H. & Tunnell, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve Setting Machine

Description: Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lock-Plate

Description: Patent for improvements in lock-plates for the stays of wire fences.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Wood, Alpheus H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stock Tank

Description: Patent for an improved water tank for livestock, connecting an elevated reservoir to a trough at ground level.
Date: August 19, 1902
Creator: Wright, Wayne C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone System.

Description: Patent for improvements to an automatic switchboard "to provide a construction of board and a connected system of wiring which will permit a subscriber at a telephone in one town to call up the operator or central at a distant point and converse with him without operating the other instruments in his town and at the same time preventing other subscribers from breaking into the line" (lines 12-20).
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: Wright, Wayne C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spur.

Description: Patent for a new and improved spur; including illustrations.
Date: August 7, 1900
Creator: Jackson, Claude D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Spur.

Description: Patent for improvement in riding-spurs for horsemen by “using an open-ended socket, a shank having limited sliding movement in the socket, a rowel freely journaled at the outer end of the shank, and a spring inclosed within the socket and serving to hold the shank normally outward, the tines or points of the rowel being adapted to engage the socket and secure the rowel against rotation when the shank is pressed inward.” (P. 2, lines 6-14.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Ridings, John G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sheet-Piling.

Description: Patent for sheet piling, which has closely fitting joints to make it watertight and can be varied in width.
Date: January 7, 1908
Creator: Pyle, Jesse Theodor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pile Structure.

Description: Patent for piling structures used in bridges and other structures built in sandy areas that allows for digging the piling hole to any depth desired and prevents cave-ins of the interior of the piling before it is filled with concrete.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Pyle, Jesse Theodor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Potter County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1909
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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