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Grid Map

Negative of a black and white map from 1946 showing the proposed site for KECK, an FM radio station near Odessa, Texas.

Date: 1946

Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Patent for a simple cattle guard for railroads "which may be applied conveniently and economically to a cattle gap, and which will prevent cattle from getting their legs caught between the sleepers above the gap, which will also prevent cattle from passing over the gap, and which will frighten the cattle from the track" (lines 16-22).

Date: July 18, 1893

Creator: Hills, Lorenzo

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.

Date: October 10, 1893

Creator: Lynch, Michael L.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Radford Hotel, Abilene, Texas: Foundation Plan

Foundation plan for a hotel and store commissioned by Mr. Radford and Mr. Oldham in Abilene, Texas. This plan shows the layout of the planned foundation, with the columns laid out in a grid-like pattern; a column schedule is drawn at the top of the sheet.

Date: June 9, 1919

Creator: Castle, David S.

Item Type: Technical Drawing

Partner: Tittle-Luther/Parkhill, Smith and Cooper, Inc.

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[News Clip: High frontier]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: April 4, 1984, 6:00 p.m.

Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grayscale and color control patches]

Photograph of grayscale and color control patches on a grid background.

Date: [1950..1965]

Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Stock-Guard.

Patent for a stock-guard meant for use in railway-tracks. It has many beveled caps, "each having a flange or projection on one side, and adapted to fit over the cross-ties" (lines 46-18). There are also slats, each with a flange on its upper edge, and the slats are arranged between the caps.

Date: November 10, 1896

Creator: Lee, Jacob Martin

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Retro perspective print series by Teel Sale; A Retrospective Walk Through Art History/Christo's Column]

Art print titled "A Retrospective Walk Through Art History/Christo's Column," is a collage depicting a perspective etching of a sunken plaza surrounded by arched tunnel entrances combined with a color image of a large central column. Retro Perspective Print Series by Teel Sale, undated.

Date: [1990..2011]

Creator: Sale, Teel

Item Type: Artwork

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Electrode for Secondary Batteries.

Patent for improvements in the manufacture of electrodes for storage batteries or accumulators by using “two corresponding plates, each having flanges on three sides of one face, said plates being united to form a central space open at top by securing together corresponding flanges on the respective plates.” (Lines 5-9, page 2) Illustration is included.

Date: June 23, 1891

Creator: Anderson, Boyd

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department