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Growing up in Texas

Description: Memoir written by Annie Margaret Rankin Warner and Virginia "Jenny" Louise Rankin Marshall of stories on growing up in West Texas from 1866-1995.
Date: 2016
Creator: Rankin Warner, Annie Margaret & Marshall, Virginia R.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[News Script: Light Airplane is Carried by Copter]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an experimental flight where a helicopter ferries an Army reconnaissance plane from San Marcos, Texas, to Lawton, Oklahoma.
Date: August 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date: 1972
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Partner: UNT Press

[News Script: Chili]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the third annual Republic of Texas Chilympiad in San Marcos.
Date: September 30, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Chilympiad]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a chili cooking competition in San Marcos, Texas.
Date: September 29, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Description: Patent for an improved acetylene-gas generator with a carbid receptacle on top of of the gasometer an an improved automated valve mechanism to assist with gas maintenance.
Date: October 7, 1902
Creator: Loyer, William Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate

Description: Patent for a gate that can be opened or closed from a remote point, and can be locked with a latch. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Rogers, Frederick S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive and efficient wrench device, which is "capable of extracting nails and of being used as a screw-driver without interchanging any of the parts or substituting one part for another" (line 14 - 17).
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Weiss, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Conveyor and Cleaner.

Description: Patent for "a pneumatic cotton conveyer and cleaner designed for carrying seed-cotton from a wagon or the like to a gin-house or warehouse or other receptacle or place of storage and for cleaning the cotton while the same is being so conveyed." (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1900
Creator: Parker, Joseph A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a pipe cutter, which can be used on pipes that are at any angle and in narrow spaces.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Thomas, Roy L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coin-Holder

Description: Patent for " a new coin holder that holds coins of different denominations in given amounts for circulating purposes," (lines 8-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1900
Creator: Sledge, Clarence Linden
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hinge-Gainer.

Description: Patent for a hinge-gainer related to "certain improvements in devices of that class employed for cutting a gain or mortise in a door-jam or door for the reception of a hinge. The object of the invention is to provide an improved machine or tool in which all the parts may be readily and accurately adjusted to cut recesses of different width, height, and depth" (Lines 8-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Ward, Richard Bryant.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shock Absorber.

Description: Patent for shock absorbers the permit bodily movement on one of the parts to which these devices are usually connected in a vehicle.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Rife, Stanford Walton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Cooling Device.

Description: Patent for a water cooling device in refrigerators and iceboxes that provides drinking water from the ice compartment.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Boyer, Robert Y. & Caldwell, James P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Tube Holder

Description: Patent for a well tube holder for removing pipes from wells and holding them in place. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Preston, Lyman L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Plow and Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Franklin, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horseshoe

Description: Patent for a horseshoe. Illustration included.
Date: June 21, 1904
Creator: Harmon, William O. & Smith, Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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