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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which can operate in uneven soil and attaches to a cultivator.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Allen, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Governor

Description: Patent for Governor that improves upon a speed controlling mechanism, specifically for controlling a reciprocating element like an engine piston, including illustration and instructions. This application is a division of an earlier application (Serial Number: 843, 812 submitted June 08, 1914).
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Burrow, Edgar A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve-Gear.

Description: Patent for a horizontally arranged cylinder that when used would bear no wear indefinitely. The cylinder was made specifically for steam engines.
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Burrow, Edgar A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Newspaper Clipping: Lens error caught images]

Description: Newspaper clipping from the Dallas Morning News. The clipped article states that Charles Bronson accidentally used a wide angle lens in place of a telephoto lens on the day that President Kennedy was assassinated. This error allowed for the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository to be visible in his film.
Date: [1978-11..1978-12]
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives
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[Funding on Preservation of Documents]

Description: Sound recording of a meeting held in Abilene, TX, discussing the Local Government Records Act (LGRA) passed September 1, 1989. First speaker: Christopher Laplante, Director of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission; Second speaker: Associate Director of Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech; Third speaker: Kent Keeth, Director of the Texas Collection at Baylor University. Topics of the meeting include the history of the National Historical Publications and Reco… more
Date: April 1990
Duration: 57 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Hays, Margaret Parx
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Elevator-Wrench

Description: Patent for an improvement in elevator wrenches. The device is meant to be used with rotary drilling machines for "supporting the drilling the drill pipe and for holding it from rotation during the releasing of the several joins of the pipe when it is necessary to withdraw the drill from the well hole."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Lebus, George Franklin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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