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Palo Pinto Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1904
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 32.75 -98.25
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Car Door Opener.

Description: Patent for a car door opener, making it possible to open a car door without using a hammer or injuring oneself.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Gibson, Levi D.
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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a "simple form of device for stretching wire, said device being adapted for attachment to a post or other support and to the wire to be stretched" (lines 9-12).
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Brannon, Walter Zebulin
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Water-Fence.

Description: Patent for the improved design of a water fence with specifications that allow the passage of a log without fully raising the fence; includes illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Walton, John H. & Ball, William M.
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Lock.

Description: Patent for an improvement to combination-locks for doors, safe, and bureaus, "with readily-operated means for holding the combination-disks inactive and in position to permit a locking-bolt to be freely operated by a key when so desired, which means will also permit the combination to be set so that the bolt cannot be moved by a key until the disks of the combination have been brought to proper position." (lines 11-18)
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Dalton, Lewis & Cross, Dick
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Mud-Drum for Boilers

Description: Patent for a mud drum for boilers to prevent the accumulation of sediment and mud in the water. Illustrations included.
Date: May 19, 1908
Creator: Stroope, Joseph
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Gate

Description: Patent for "enabling a gate to be operated at a distance from either side of it by a person on horseback or in a vehicle" (lines 14-16), with details and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1902
Creator: Millican, John M.
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Horse Breaking Device

Description: Patent for a horse breaking device. This invention is designed to break the horses without balking. Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Bump, James G.
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Excavating Apparatus

Description: Patent for an "improved excavating apparatus adopted for use in cleaning out tanks, for excavating cellars, for dredging streams, and for other similar purposes; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed." (line 9-14)
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Bump, James G.
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Self-Dumping Cage for Hoisting Coal, & c., from Mines.

Description: Patent for improvements in self-dumping cage for hoisting coal or other minerals by first provide a simple and easily-controlled dumping mechanism which can be set at bottom of shaft; second, to secure a positive action of the dumping mechanism and reduce the shock and strain commonly incident to the operation of self-dumping cages; third, to provide a firmer and more easily operated dog for holding car on cage-platform. (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Burdic, Malvern W.
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Churn Operator

Description: Patent for a Churn Operator. This device contains specifications for operating churn-dashers, as well as improvements for the established churn operator.
Date: April 13, 1905
Creator: Ham, James T.
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Apparatus for Treating Ankylosis of the Knee

Description: Patent for an apparatus for treating knee ankylosis that is ready to use at a moments notice "without unnecessary or nervous shock to the invalid to apply the requisite heat, extension, and flexion to an afflicted part to render it supple and restore to its natural functions". (lines 11-15).
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Norwood, Robert R.
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Cement Block

Description: Patent for a cement block. This invention relates to building blocks made of artificial stone that are connected by tie rods. Illustration included.
Date: November 27, 1906
Creator: Woodiwiss, Jason, Matthew; Deal, Frank L. & Burdg, William J.
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Bracket

Description: Patent for a shelf bracket which can support a shelf with only one bracket.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: Cockrum, George R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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