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Improvement in Remedies for Dropsy.

Description: Patent for a medical compound to alleviate dropsy, consisting of grape-vine, spirits of niter, oil of grape-vine, extract of Spanish apple root, and common salt. Includes instructions.
Date: November 14, 1876
Creator: Lawhon, David W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of runniā€¦ more
Date: April 6, 1875
Creator: Knowles, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Lamp Shelf for Pianos.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lamp shelf for pianos. This design "consists in an arm pivoted to the back of a music-rack and carrying a lamp-shelf, the arm being arranged to swing outward into a horizontal position, and the shelf being connected with the end of the arm by a pivotal connection, which permits of turning it outward and downward into a horizontal position in front of the plane of the music-rack" (lines 22-30).
Date: August 31, 1886
Creator: Prause, Reinhard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that provides an apparatus in which the parts may be readily detached for convenience in making repairs.
Date: June 5, 1908
Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Trading Card: Houston Toad]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Bastrop State Park, depicting a Houston toad with a distended vocal sac, sitting on the ground. The back of the card provides information about the species.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Trading Card: Civilian Conservation Corps]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Buescher State Park, depicting a historic, black-and-white photograph of a group of men working in a park. Information on the back of the card discusses the history of the Corps.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination-Flue.

Description: Patent for the improvement of combination flue to be more inexpensive and for the parts to be more readily assembled and properly supported.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Carl, Reinhold Adolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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