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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for "a cheap and simple machine adapted to chop or hoe cotton and simultaneously plow or hill the same; furthermore, to adapt the chopper to form stands composed of any number of plants and at any distance apart, and, finally, to provide means for raising and lowering the plows out of and into operative position and throwing the chopping mechanism into and out of gear, which means are controlled in a convenient manner by the driver or operator" (lines 10-20).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Balshaw, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Transcript of Letter from Stephen F. Austin, March 19, 1826]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from Stephen F. Austin, on March 19, 1826, discussing the resolution of the conflict between the Comanche Indians and the Tahuacanos, as well as the movements of militia troops. He goes on to discuss the other tribes they have been having trouble with.
Date: March 19, 1826
Creator: Austin, Stephen F.
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[News Script: APBO 99]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about according to police the blaze broke out shortly before 3 A. M in the Clayton house apartments near the Stephen F. Austin state university campus.
Date: June 19, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire fatalities]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a pre dawn fire in an apartment complex in Nacogdoches in East Texas which has claimed the lives of two youngsters.
Date: June 19, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire fatalities]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two children who died and their father suffered burns when fire swept an apartment complex at Nacogdoches in East Texas.
Date: June 19, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Boll-Weevil Catcher.

Description: Patent for agricultural devices and more particularly to a device to be attached to a cultivator for catching boll weevil or the like, during the cultivation of cotton.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Stanalan, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "is to provide an engine or apparatus . . . in pumps of that class known as "force-pumps" . . . which is simple and durable in construction, and which is of large working capacity. . . . [The design] attain[s] the purposes of [the] invention by . . . the pump-buckets or caging and that part of the delivering-pipe containing the . . . valves in the plungers . . . [and] the ball-valves" (lines 9-28).
Date: October 19, 1886
Creator: Sparks, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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