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Can Opener

Description: Patent for can-opener which uses a fulcrum point that pierces the center of the can's lid and a circular blade to cut an opening around the circumference.
Date: August 19, 1902
Creator: Pierce, Jesse Washington
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Foot-Tub.

Description: Patent for a simple foot tub that has a cover with openings for the feet and curved backing as a foot rest to allow the use of the tub while lying down such as in the case of an invalid. The tub also includes a spout for filling the tub that closes to keep heat and steam inside the tub.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Ely, Ella Yelvington
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Peg for Violins.

Description: Patent for a new and improved violin peg. This design "has for its object to dispense with the usual string-aperture in the peg and to so construct the peg that a string may be expeditiously, conveniently, and securely attached thereto and as readily and conveniently removed therefrom, as desired, and to accomplish these objects without disfiguring the peg" (lines 11-18).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Rowe, George H.
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[Letter from Junia Roberts Osterhout to Paul Osterhout, October 19, 1881]

Description: Letter from Junia Roberts Osterhout to her son, Paul Osterhout. She wrote to inform him that she would be sending him his winter coat and that she was unsure what Paul's father's plans were for when Paul would be attending his next session of school. She also requested that if Paul got sick, he return home.
Date: October 19, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Junia
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Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Gertrude Osterhout, March 19, 1881]

Description: Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his daughter, Gertrude Osterhout, with news from home. Everyone at home at been well, except for her mother who had a cold. They had four cows that they milked and used the milk to make butter to sell. He told his daughter that she should not be so eager for school to be over. He concluded the letter by correcting his daughter on her use of the word "too."
Date: March 19, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson
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[News Script: Frank Erwin on stand]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about University of Texas Regent, Frank Erwin, expected to take the stand in his own defense on trial on charges of driving while intoxicated.
Date: July 19, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Erwin]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a jury finding University of Texas regent, Frank Erwin, innocent of charges of driving while intoxicated.
Date: July 19, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Tex News At Ten Tuesday]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a tale of terror and death in the Lopez-Guzman trial at Belton.
Date: February 19, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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