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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: Buffalo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the addition of buffaloes to the Nocona Junior Chamber of Commerce Rodeo. The buffalo yearlings will be ridden and roped in contests.
Date: November 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car coupler, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1899
Creator: Smith, Thomas Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn Operating Mechanism

Description: Patent for a churn operating mechanism. This invention provides a dasher operating mechanism for easy and convenient cleaning. Illustration included.
Date: December 31, 1912
Creator: Cunningham, Richard A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a plow that is simpler, more durable, and cheaper to make than previous ones and allows for easier adjustments in plowing depth.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Stafford, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switch.

Description: Patent for switches or connectors that connect sections of wires used for telephones or telegraphs
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Du Val, James Erl & Lee, Ezra A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for Kitchen Cabinet

Description: Design patent for a kitchen cabinet that is useful and ornamental. Leading feature includes rectangular upright position that has a framework of strips provided with a longitudinal beading or ribs.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Ferguson, John F. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Projectile.

Description: Patent for improvements in projectiles is to positively insure the explosion of the projectile at any desired point and the action is more reliable than is the case with time-fuses, where exact results cannot be insured, or with impact-projectiles, which explode when they come into contact with the armor. (Page 2, lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: Densler, Nat
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

CONVERTIBLE CAR.

Description: Patent for improved convertible cars pertaining to railroad rolling-stock, that can be converted from freight-car into a box-car or cattle-car. This invention is tighter in corners when serving as a box-car, to prevent leakage of transports.
Date: May 22, 1906
Creator: Cothern, John K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental - Chair.

Description: Patent for a new and useful dental chair to "easily adjust to various positions and be folded into very compact form for transportation or storage" (line 13-14).
Date: January 4, 1898
Creator: Rose, Nicholas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in insecticides, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Carmichaelm, Joseph B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Cloth Supporting and Measuring Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a support and measuring device for wire-cloth in stores. It features areas to store rolls of cloth and allows cloth to be measured and cut, and rolled from one roll without removing the other rolls stored on the device.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: March, William Wells
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lawn-Mower

Description: Patent for a lawn mower designed to trim grass close to fences or trees. Illustrations included.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Merritt, William Neil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Packing.

Description: Patent for packing material for use in preventing lateral movement of rods in pumps.
Date: October 20, 1908
Creator: Grant, Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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