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Coupling

Description: Patent for a coupler for railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date: April 28, 1908
Creator: Brandt, Olof Nelson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an automatic car-coupler that operates without someone having to go to between the cars. It is simple and compact.
Date: February 27, 1894
Creator: Calhoun, Cloud B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Loader.

Description: Patent for “improvements in apparatus for loading cotton bales (either gin or compress) onto box cars, especially with a view of utilizing the head room or space usually left unoccupied between the roof of the car and the bales stacked on the floor in the prevailing practice of loading cars” (lines 36-42) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Newell, Allen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Newark marker]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Newark marker.
Date: November 4, 1967
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Freight wreck blocks tracks]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a freight train derailment outside of Bridgeport that blocked the railroad track.
Date: May 21, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wagon-Top.

Description: Patent for improvements in wagon-bodies by providing "a simple and effective means for tightening the canvas covering over the bows of wagon or other vehicle-bodies” (lines 17-19), includes illustration.
Date: April 14, 1891
Creator: James, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locomotive Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved train wheel. This design "relates to locomotive drive-wheels; and it has for its object to so construct the same so as to avoid all slipping of the wheel upon the rail, as is usually the case when the locomotive is first started. A further object of the invention is to provide a wheel which shall be simple in its construction and durable in use" (lines 9-16).
Date: May 6, 1884
Creator: Mann, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Railway-Signal.

Description: Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Stafford, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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