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Balanced Piston Engine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved balanced-piston engine. This design "relates to that class of steam or other engines which are constructed with two pistons receiving the pressure in opposite directions, each connected with cranks set at opposite positions, whereby the strain occurs simultaneously in opposite directions upon the crank-shaft and balances the same within its bearings, and thus obviates great friction on the journals and thereby economizes power" (lines 7-15).
Date: February 15, 1881
Creator: Peebles, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5741

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Payment by Stephens County of federal excise tax on tires and tubes.
Date: February 8, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from J. D. Sandefer Jr. to H. A. Pender, E. F. Pittard, Dan Moody, Claude McAden, and Barney Carter - February 9, 1950]

Description: Letter from J. D. Sandefer Jr. to Mrs. Pender, Mrs. Pittard, Mrs. Moody, Mrs. McAden, and Mr. Carter concerning a photo he found while at his mother’s house in Abilene. He includes a limerick that he describes as “unfair to use.”
Date: February 9, 1950
Creator: Sandefer, J. D., Jr.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Sid Bowers to T. N. Carswell]

Description: A letter written to Commander Carswell, from Sid Bowers, Post Comm., The American Legion, Bernice Coles Post No. 191, Breckenridge, Texas. Bowers issues an invitation to Carswell to attend their annual Post and Auxilliary Banquet in Breckenridge advising that Dr. Sadler of TCU will speak. Carswell penciled a notation regarding having answered this letter on 2/16/43.
Date: February 1943
Creator: Bowers, Sid
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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