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[News Script: Bank robber]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about authorities looking for a bank robber that took eight thousand dollars.
Date: September 6, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Gate.

Description: Patent for improvements in swinging gates which “can be opened in either direction and capable of being operated at a distance from either side of it by a person on horseback or in a vehicle.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: April 15, 1902
Creator: Plaster, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fertilizer-Distributer.

Description: Patent for a fertilizer-distributer with "means for agitating and loosening up the fertilizing material and delivering the same through a series of discharge-openings, such series extending transversely of the path of movement of the machine across the field and controlled by individual and independently-operable feed slides or gates, whereby the machine may be used for simultaneously fertilizing adjoined furrows or as a broadcast fertilizer-distributer" (Lines 12-21).
Date: May 20, 1902
Creator: Mize, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for "a wrench having a sliding jaw and a handle pivoted to the shank in such a manner that a movement of the handle about the work" prevents the jaw to move (lines 13-16).
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Garrard, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for a new design of rail joints in which headed bolts and wedge plate have keyhole slots, including with illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1900
Creator: Park, Henry J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate Closer

Description: Patent for a gate closer. This invention uses a counter weight to automatically closes a gate or door. Illustration included.
Date: June 21, 1904
Creator: Rhodes, Efford B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compound Engine.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in compound engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 20, 1899
Creator: Johnson, Willie H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie

Description: Patent for a bale tie made of aluminum which has a fastener attached to the band.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Brigance, Alice Osborne
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ventilator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful ventilator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Schumacher, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow Attachment.

Description: Patent for an adjustable plow attachment that is placed onto a plow blade and sweeps aside earth while "forming a load-bearing surface." (p. 1)
Date: December 25, 1900
Creator: Bracewell, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Book

Description: Patent for a book with margin numbering which allows for page numbers to be visible with one glance, including illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1901
Creator: Rhodes, Samuel E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fly-Trap Shed

Description: Patent for a collapsible shed, which is equipped with a trap to catch flies when flies are being removed from cows in the shed through a water spray.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Harbuck, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for a rail joint that connects the opposing ends of a pair of rails while allowing for necessary contractions and expansion of the rails due to atmospheric conditions. It also reinforces the portion of the joint at the meeting ends.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Busa, Adam
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of Grimes County

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Grimes County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, surveys of land, and towns. No scale information given.
Date: 1858
Creator: Von Rosenberg, W.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Grimes County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Grimes County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:266,666] (2000 varas to 1/4 of an inch).
Date: 1922
Creator: Matzow, Fr.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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