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Johnson Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Johnson County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:166,667] (5000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1887
Creator: Blau, F. G.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.

Description: Patent for "an improved wheel-cultivator, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use in marking the ground, covering the seed, and cultivating the plants." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1876
Creator: Riddle, William N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Keene cemetery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about residents who have begun collecting funds for a reward to be offered for information leading to the arrest and convictions of those persons responsible for desecrating a grave.
Date: June 6, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Medical Office of Dr. L. L. Harris]

Description: Reprint of a photograph taken outside the medical office of Dr. Larkin L. Harris in Cuba (Sand Flat), Texas. Dr. Harris is seated in a horse-drawn wagon at left, near the front porch where his wife (Nellie Gipson Goldman) is standing, and his sister-in-law (Catherine Goldman Smith) is holding the reins of a horse next to the fence on the left side of the image. The building is a small, one-story building with wood siding a Queen Anne-style embellishments including scalloped gable ends and jig… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

[News Script: Elections]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two elections in Johnson County.
Date: May 25, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cotton-Planter

Description: Patent for "a planter-carriage frame adapted to carry a cotton-seed hopper having novel and peculiar means for feeding the cotton-seed in planting the same, so that the same frams may be employed for both hopper without alteration of either hopper or frame" (lines 11-17).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Morrison, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which can be more easily turned without damaging the cotton plants.
Date: March 1, 1910
Creator: Snow, Orto S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Headlight.

Description: Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1902
Creator: Stanton, James Robertson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle Guard

Description: Patent for a cattle guard. This cattle guard is a useful improvement in use on railway-tracks.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Frownfelter, George C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hose-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and useful hose coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Davenport, Robert L. & Rast, Felix Q.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator Attachment.

Description: Patent for cultivator attachment that is useful in breaking up the soil at opposite side of the plants and leveling the ground between the rows. It can be adjusted to any desired angle (vertical, horizontal) or level (up and down).
Date: January 6, 1903
Creator: Brewer, John Meed.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compound Engine

Description: Patent for a compound railroad engine. This design is capable of operating under conditions resulting from an accident, the ability to start under full load via live steam to both the high and low pressure cylinders, and its working parts may be operated with one or both compounds. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Symons, Wilson E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bolt-Clipper

Description: Patent for improvements to bolt cutters, in terms of construction and efficiency. The improvement includes "oppositely-disposed jaw members, having v-shaped cutting edges" (lines 36-37). Includes illustrations.
Date: January 9, 1906
Creator: Pulvitt, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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